Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the hammering of the rain on the tin roof of a tobacco shed, the burly, shaggy-browed six-footer boomed into a microphone: "I know that the African National Congress is saying. 'Freedom at any price!' This is an emotional appeal to a not-so-advanced people. I hope those who talk this way realize what would become of the ordinary black man in this country." The speaker: Sir Roy Welensky, 51, Prime Minister of Britain's Central Africa Federation, stumping for his party just before last week's national election. In the shed...
...week's end Spayth's candid appeal had attracted a couple of dozen queries from young newsmen willing to wait as well as work for their future...
...from 93¾ to a high of 102½, and Lockheed Aircraft from 56⅜ to a high of 62 on reports from the companies that they were considering splits. The low price of the mutual funds (about 90% are selling under $25) is a big reason for their appeal, although the funds, in turn, drive the market higher by buying large blocks of high-priced blue chips. The National Association of Investment Companies reported this week that sales of mutual funds rose to a record $171 million in October, up from $128 million only a year...
...most telling criticism is, perhaps, Curley's persistently devisive influence on Boston. "Curley's stock in trade," Handlin wrote in his recently-published Al Smith and His America, "had been the appeal to the narrow clannishness of his group. Unlike Smith he had consistently labored to widen rather than to bridge the differences between the Irish and their fellow citizens...
Criticizing Curley is nothing new for Lyons, who has also mentioned the divisive, racial character of his appeal that is less prominent now than it was twenty-two years ago. He than wrote in The Nation, "The intolerance of the Irish politician in Boston for any sharing of politician in Boston for any sharing of political power or political liberties can be compared only to that of the early church magistrates of New England. Curley's regime is frankly racial beyond anything known else-where in America...