Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last June 23 the State Department, goaded by Congress, summarily dismissed ten employees for disloyalty. It did so without a hearing, without telling the dismissed what the charges were, and without giving them the right of appeal...
...already been allowed to resign "without prejudice." Still refusing to divulge the charges, on the ground of security, State now extended the same privilege to the remaining seven, "to avoid a possible injustice to them." By now the Department has set up a more elaborate system of hearings and appeals. For the future, the State Department was "taking all steps" to provide dismissed employees with the right of appeal to the new Loyalty Review Board...
Something Steady. This wedding, on a dark day of a troubled, distracted and most uncertain time, carried over six continents and seven seas a brightness so simple it was hard to understand. Its appeal was too nearly universal to be explained by such words as "glamor," "publicity," "sentimentality," or even by harsher and more present words, such as "power" or "wealth." Of the millions who spoke and wrote of it, perhaps a London linotyper and an archbishop came closest to saying what it meant...
...some fresh and sober thought be given to the meaning of the separation of church and state. . . . To a very considerable extent, the Protestant mood has come to reflect the modern secularist attitude, which tends progressively to isolate religion from the more significant areas of the common life. Thus, appeal to the separation of church and state readily becomes an argument for silencing the voice of religion in the political sphere...
...January 1941, Roosevelt summoned him to Washington, spent the day questioning him about conditions in Europe. Winant, three times Republican Governor of New Hampshire, had urged Roosevelt to run for a third term: "My appeal to him was that we were facing war, that he had a greater hold on the people of the democratic world than any other statesman of his time, and that it was too late to find a substitute; that I understood his wanting to retire to Hyde Park to enjoy the freedom of private citizenship, but that I did not think that was good enough...