Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MEMPHIS COMMERCIAL APPEAL...
Goldfine learned to be as bipartisan in spreading his scandals as he has been with his money, a fact that further lessened his appeal to Chairman Oren Harris of Arkansas and his Democratic majority. New Jersey Republican Charles Wolverton, following up the Securities and Exchange Commission probe of Goldfine's real-estate troubles, asked if "the only time that you have been required to comply with the law has been under the present Administration?" Goldfine: "That is correct." Asked for details of how he got John R. Steelman, of President Truman's White House staff, to wrangle approval...
...Russians, with widespread pleasure, proclaimed that the idol of the Arab masses had once again been their guest, this time to seek their help against the "American aggressors." But from Cairo came a wholly different version, indicating that Nasser's main purpose in flying to Moscow was to appeal to Khrushchev not to take any warlike action in the Middle East. The flight betrayed his jitters. For his own stance as a "positive neutral," it showed him as too dependent on Russia...
...overriding is the appeal of Arab unity, and so inflammatory is Cairo's radio propaganda, that Nasser probably has little need to spend vast sums on paid agents to keep things popping. He can often leave it to local plotters to do the dirty work-as he may have done in Iraq -providing them with arms, money and technical advice when needed. But Nasser is an inveterate instigator, and the plot against Jordan, which King Hussein broke up at the last moment by arresting 60 army men, was entirely directed from Cairo. Washington is pretty sure that Nasser...
...Editor Dunn, 59. an ex-University of Virginia halfback and baseball captain, landed some blows of his own. When the machine's Sun-News called him a liar, Dunn sued for libel, won a verdict (still under appeal) of $65,000-largest in the state's history. And though the Kellams stayed in power, the gamblers gradually began to leave Virginia Beach...