Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trough promises. They rose even above personalities, in which the grinning, song-singing, slaphappy, 40-year-old Governor had a distinct edge over the slow-footed, slow-witted, 60-year-old drayhorse Senator. While "Happy" Chandler sang There's a Gold Mine in the Sky, voters remembered the plea of Franklin Roosevelt, author of all their benefits, to send back to the Senate his dear, distinguished colleague Mr. Barkley...
...Munich's world-famed summer opera season. But last week, as the rehearsals were well under way, and the score of the opera was released to the public, war-loving Nazis got another unpleasant surprise. Obstinate Bavarian Strauss and his guaranteed Aryan librettist had concocted an impassioned plea against war. Its title: Friedenstag (The Day of Peace...
...Wolcott replied that he bought only 55,000 tons of Pennsylvania coal a year, anyway (plus 20,000 tons from West Virginia), would continue doing so-unless continued losses forced him to close the plant. Coatesville townsfolk, about 90% of whom depend on Lukens for a living, backed his plea and last week Pennsylvania's Public Utility Commission decided Lukens could buy its gas direct from Columbia's subsidiary. Henceforth, instead of the 20,000 tons of West Virginia bituminous and 25,000,000 gallons of fuel oil it has been buying annually, the company will...
...Bronx County Courthouse one morning last week Supreme Court Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo heard an elderly couple plead for the setting aside of the three-day notice required for marriage in New York. Granting the plea and satisfied that the pleaders were not syphilitic -another legal requirement-Judge Cotillo married them. The couple: Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, 59, publisher of New York's tabloid Daily News, and Mary King, fiftyish, women's editor of the News and fiction editor of the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate...
...favorite plea, particularly of heavy industries such as steel and cement, that some sort of price stabilization : needed to prevent local monopolies (TIME, July 11). Maybe so, concedes Dr. Nourse but this cannot be justified in the long run for it means conducting industry in the interest of the inefficient and disregarding the advantages of technological progress...