Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter to Rayburn was timed in the full realization that President Eisenhower was far from being the only Government official going on vacation. By demonstrating that the President was willing to meet Congress at least part way in its budget-cutting efforts, the letter was a shrewd appeal to the public opinion that Congress both generates and venerates. And no one knew better than Ike that the members of the 85th Congress were using the Easter holidays to head for home to feel the popular pulse...
...ninth surplus in ten years. In the last session of Parliament, the government cut taxes, increased old-age pensions and "baby bonuses," i.e., mothers' allowances. It put through a national hospital insurance act. But for their political heavy artillery, the Liberals still rely mainly on the powerful personal appeal of Quebec-born Louis St. Laurent, who at 75 is leading his third national campaign...
...blonde and Vera Pearce as the battle-ax catch perfectly the right emphatic, externalized manner. Bert Lahr's performance is harder to appraise: he is in a sense too good for French farce without always being entirely right for it. His clowning has always a certain human appeal; his zany genius is rooted in character and a little disrupted by plot. His own timing is flawless, but too personal for pacing flat, stylized farce. He doubtless gives the play something extra. But if Hotel Paradiso lacks the sustained period-farce verve of last season's The Matchmaker...
NEGRO WORKERS can be denied union membership on ground of color alone, says Wisconsin Supreme Court. In what lawmakers believe is first such decision in U.S., court turned down appeal of two Milwaukee Negro masons for entry to bricklayers' union. Ruled court: "Unions are voluntary associations," and applicants "cannot force themselves [in] against the will of those already members...
...second problem in English 10 is that lecturers are dull. The problem is not the lecturers' fault. The problem is rather that very little can be done in fifty minutes of capsule generalization to enrich a "Major British Writer." Few canned opinions about books have much more appeal to the literary novice. Admittedly the abolition of lecturers would leave the course entirely in the hands of possibly inept tutors, but this is in fact already the case...