Word: plea
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...