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Word: plea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Calling for subsistence increases for single as well as married veterans, Stanley G. Karson '45, AVC chairman, released last night a plea asking all students to contact, their Congressmen immediately to secure passage of the Rogers bill now before the House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVC Head Urges Support for Vet Subsistence Hike | 7/22/1947 | See Source »

...free to act, but he must act to be free," is Sartre's rallying cry. Sartre himself played an active role in the French underground after his release from a German prison camp. His play, Les Mouches (The Flies), produced during the occupation, was an eloquent plea for freedom cloaked in a classic Greek legend. Sartre also found time to write a 700-page theoretical treatise, L'Etre et le Néant (Being and Nothingness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Existentialist Purgatory | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...displaced persons languished in committee, despite increasing public pressure. In Manhattan, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, reversing an earlier resolution, voted overwhelmingly to support the bill. An RKO-Pathe documentary movie short called "Passport to Nowhere" made a first-run appearance with a plea for U.S. compassion toward European refugees. But immigration sensitive Congressmen preferred to sidestep such a politically explosive issue. The Stratton bill was dying on the vine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Jul. 7, 1947 | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...listened in court while 16 Germans who had worked with him testified against him. He tried to repudiate a long statement which he had made to FBI Agent J. Eldon Dunn in Germany. "Dunn, the blond beast, possessed hypnotic powers," he said. His only defense was a plea of insanity, and that he thought he was helping his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TREASON: American Lord Haw-Haw | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...week's end, Scott and his wife were forced to move in with his staunchest supporter, Lumber Dealer Harold ("Tiny" ) Rice. Church trustees prepared a plea to the bishop to reconsider. Said Preacher Scott: "I shall not be moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: The Preacher & Rose City | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

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