Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special case, of course; but it was, nevertheless, a resounding Democratic defeat. The fact was that the Democrats had fallen on their faces when they had every reason, and every precedent, for staying on their feet. They had tripped, almost absentmindedly, over Henry Wallace's highly emotional appeal to the very poor, the huddled minorities, and the tightly knit Communists...
...until a short time before election did Boss Flynn appear to realize that Isacson was making dangerous inroads. He called on New York's ailing Mayor Bill O'Dwyer and Eleanor Roosevelt to prop up Propper. The best O'Dwyer could do was appeal to Wallace to come back to the Democratic Party. For his final rally, Isacson drew an overflow crowd of 8,500, who came to hear Wallace and such other notables of the far left as Singer Paul Robeson and Congressman Vito Marcantonio. At another rally the same night Prizefighter Champion Joe Louis, contributed...
...view, but both inspiration and string-pulling for the third party are based upon the international Soviet goal of destroying Continental economies in the service of Communist ascendancy to power. Recognizing the emotional lure of the Wallace symbol on issues of civil liberties and domestic reaction, ADA bases its appeal to liberals on opposition to Wallace's anti-Marshall Plan stand. Sacrificing the democracy of Western Europe, it claims, is "too high a price to pay for the luxury of a 'protest vote...
...another decision, the Supreme Court upheld, in effect, the investigating powers of the House Un-American Activities Committee. It refused to review an appeal by Communist Leon Josephson, convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before the committee last March...
...cooperation with over 20 member organizations of American Overseas Aid, Ording's United Nations Appeal has turned to the citizens of 45 nations for extra funds. Throughout the world the campaign would reach a climax on Feb. 29 with a leap year appeal for every citizen to give the extra day's earnings. The committee, whose International Advisory Board is headed by former OPAster Chester Bowles, hopes to gather $60 million in the U.S. alone. A third of this would go directly to I.C.E.F. The rest would be divided among the Overseas Aid group agencies, including Quakers, Catholic...