Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columbia University Psychiatrist Abram Kardiner attacked what he called Kinsey's plea for tolerance toward perversion. Moral laws that separate men from the other animals are not "historical happenstance"; they grew, he said, out of necessity for control...
...reviewing the reams of testimony on Young's year-old plea, ICC found all sorts of reasons for saying no. For one thing, any closer alliance between the C. & O. and Central would lessen the "extensive competition" between them, would thus violate the antitrust and interstate commerce laws. For another, "the applicants have not shown that either public or private interests will not be adversely affected." ICC reckoned that half a dozen other railroads-and therefore the public -would have been harmed. Example: Frank D. Beale, president of the Virginian Railway Co., wailed that a C. & O.-Central link...
Officials of the Cambridge Post Office Department have issued an impassioned plea to students leaving Cambridge for the summer sabbatical to send a change of address notice to all magazines to which they subscribe...
...over Milton's 95-acre, $2,000,000 campus, watched a student production of Alumnus Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, heard speeches by Pundit Walter Lippmann, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Wellesley's Mildred McAfee Horton, Oxford's Sir Richard Livingstone. After Sir Richard's plea for the sort of education that would foster "a feeling for the first-rate" and "a quest for the good," visiting educators wrangled politely about the best...
Washington took startled note last week: a speech by Harry Truman had been well received. At the annual banquet of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the President had droned through a prepared address renewing his plea for the enactment of price controls. Then, when the radio microphones had been switched off, he tossed aside his papers and launched into an off-the-record talk "for background...