Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making its current appeal, PBH can no longer ask for blood on war-time grounds of glamourized patriotism. These donations will not give on-the-spot aid to the entrenched soldier who has stopped an enemy bullet; but they may very well help out a roommate or a Cambridge schoolboy...
Another Negro was still knocking at the daily newspapers' gallery, which had refused to open the door. This week the Senate's Rules Committee would hear the appeal of Louis R. Lautier, 46, correspondent for the Atlanta Daily World. A fortnight ago the correspondents' committee looked over his credentials, found that he also represented 36 Negro weeklies (there is no gallery for weekly newspapers). Lautier protested in vain that more than half his income came from the daily; the committee ruled that his "chief attention" was the weeklies. Lautier hoped the Senators would agree with Griffing Bancroft...
...reported that "the flow of income is not letting up," and pointed to the receipt during the past two days of $200 from faculty members and $100 from a New York alumnus. Over 1400 of the faculty men and women have not yet responded to the Committee's second appeal...
...democracy is reestablished." If her historic policy in the Mediterranean is insufficient proof, then her tacit approval of the present corrupt reactionary Tsoldaris government demonstrates that the first intention of the British government is to halt the Russians rather than to bring democracy to the lower Balkans. The British appeal to the United States for active aid in Greece is impelled by her desire for us to participate more whole-heartedly in a so-called Anglo-American bloc, and by her realization that the maintenance of the British position around the world is now too expensive for an impoverished empire...
...Congress should heed the President's appeal for aid to Greece, but not on the terms he has proposed. Instead, our vast resources should be offered to the United Nations for use as they see fit to stabilize Greece. Although all of the decisive powers reside within the Security Council, nevertheless the presence of the veto power in the Security Council, as well as the absence of the neutral influence of smaller countries not directly concerned with the situation in the eastern Mediterranean suggest that the General Assembly would be more suitable as the supervisory body. (The planned purpose...