Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indictment was quashed, the 13 freed. Later, on an appeal by the prosecution, the state supreme court reversed Judge Schoolfield, ordered that the Teamsters be tried. Later also, according to Senate investigators, Local 515 chalked off another $1,500 to legal expenses. The 13 defendants were brought to new trial. This time they were freed for keeps. The legal mechanics: Judge Schoolfield ordered the jury to return a verdict of not guilty because the prosecution had failed to prove that the 13 Teamsters committed the violent acts involved...
...notion of "disengagement" of hostile forces by creating a buffer zone between them has had a long appeal, and it is still strong today among statesmen and pundits who have not yet comprehended the meaning of airpower. At the Geneva summit conference in 1955, Britain's Sir Anthony Eden proposed the establishment of a zone stretching roughly 100 miles on each side of the Iron Curtain in which the armament of both sides would be subject to inspection, and gradually reduced. Eden's plan was premised on the reunification of Germany through free elections. The dividing line would...
...motormen, threatened with dismissal, were shuffling sadly back to work. Subway service was clunking back to normal-and so was the city. Bedeviled Mayor Wagner (a "jellyfish," snorted the New York Herald Tribune), refused to discuss the issue until the M.B.A. canceled its "illegal strike." The motormen could only appeal to Democratic Governor Averell Harriman, who, many suspected, would only appeal to Bob Wagner, who would only appeal...
...millions of women voters in this country I will concede that John Kennedy is a cute kid, if they will, in turn, grant that a high AMI (appeal to the maternal instinct) does not sufficiently qualify a man for the presidency...
...family influence on the show is waning (back in the early '30s, Harvey Jr. went on the show 50 times in twelve months with short talks on the history of transportation and rubber), one of the five Firestone brothers appears at one time or another to make an appeal for his pet charity (4-H Clubs, Community Chest, Future Farmers of America). And once, musically ambitious Elizabeth Firestone, granddaughter of the founder, got a chance on the show to introduce one of her own piano concertos...