Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gifts Harvard has received have been unrestricted grants which the University may use as it sees fit. Moreover, the percentage of such gifts shows a declining trend. This is in spite of the fact that many of President Conant's speeches and reports have echoed eloquently the plea for fluid funds. Either because Harvard's benefactors are of an unimpressionable nature, or because they fail to read the President's speeches, the University finds itself tied and thwarted on every hand, with its efficiency gravely impaired...
...plea was sent to the U. S. Minister in Prague, Wilbur J. Carr, and finally the Czech War Ministry, acting with the Czech Red Cross, agreed to help. Food was hurried into the area and negotiations authorized with Germany regarding the refugees' fate...
...there attended the dedication of a monument to his father, the late King Albert. Surprised were France's President Albert Lebrun, Premier Edouard Daladier and Leopold's sister, the Crown Princess of Italy, when the King brushed aside the conventional speech of thanks, launched into an impassioned plea for his ideas...
...This plea the President further backed up by cabling a personal suggestion to Benito Mussolini that he say a restraining word to Herr Hitler. Mussolini already urged to this by Prime Minister Chamberlain (see p.15), had already talked to Herr Hitler by telephone when Ambassador Phillips in Rome arrived with Mr. Roosevelt's message. Announcement of Hitler's decision to hold the four-power meeting at Munich followed so soon after these two Roosevelt messages that the appearance of cause-&-effect was inevitable...
Herbert Hoover arrived in Kansas City one day last week loaded, primed and cocked to fire his best-prepared forensic broadside of the season into Franklin Roosevelt. Its powder: a charge of lowering the morals of U. S. public life. Just then Franklin Roosevelt's second Peace plea was made public (see p. 9), and Mr. Hoover felt obliged to preface his broadside with a non-partisan salute to Mr. Roosevelt's efforts. Next day, completing Jonah Hoover's bad political luck, his thunder was muffled in obscure columns of the press as the Munich settlement exploded...