Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more vivid pictures of the kaleidoscopic American scene than those painted by Don Iddon." Sir Alan Herbert: "I like . . . Don Iddon who paints with such gusto the best pictures of the States." The Duchess of Argyll: "The special articles in the Daily Mail have a very wide appeal, especially those by Don Iddon who writes so perspicaciously about America...
...Birthday fund-raising ceremonies. Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn polled G.O.P. Senators on how many philippics they could unload at party rallies this year, learned to his mild horror that a bipartisan clerk had mailed one query astray. Bemused recipient of the inadvertent, fire-eating "Dear Frank" appeal: Utah's new Democrat Frank E. Moss...
...motion to table (i.e., kill) the rules-changing motion, or a point of order. A motion to table is decided by a simple majority vote. A point of order is decided by the Senate's presiding officer-Vice President Nixon. Once he rules, the defeated side can appeal to the Senate, which can approve or reject the Vice President's decision by a simple majority vote...
...great advantage to such strategy is that it bypasses the Russell Amendment to Rule XXII. The major drawback is that it forces the issue not on the question of the filibuster, but on whether the Senate is a continuing body. In the past, the appeal of sitting in the selfsame, continuing Senate as Webster. Clay and Calhoun has been too compelling for many a Senator otherwise sympathetic to civil rights causes...
Congregational Christian Church leaders are determined to give integration more than moral support. They are offering cash. Any Congregational church that hesitates to integrate its members for fear of financial losses can appeal to the Board of Home Missions for a grant, the board announced this week. At the same time, the mission board made two contributions of $2,500 each to the National Council of Churches' department of racial and cultural relations and to the legal-defense fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...