Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against credit control, said Eccles, are "the people who sell credit-the banks and the loan companies." Eccles said that in a poll of automobile dealers-usually considered the main beneficiaries of the installment system-only 51% voted for decontrol, 48% favored consumer credit legislation. Despite his plea, observers saw only one chance in five that Congress would make credit control permanent...
...they hear it, "pieces like the popular setting of The Lord's Prayer, a ballad as voluptuous as anything in Faust, will cease to be bestsellers; organists will cease to play as voluntaries pieces that would do very well as background for Hollywood erotica." Purist Gore's plea: "0 sing unto the Lord a new song...
During his long vigil, the President: ¶ Renewed his plea to Congress for a long-range public-health program which would authorize: 1) national health insurance, supported by a payroll tax; 2) federal funds for expanded public-health services, increased medical research and education, more doctors and hospitals...
...House of Commons last week brisk Brigadier Ralph Rayner, a Tory, made an eloquent plea to Food Minister John Strachey. All that he asked on behalf of his constituents in the tiny Devonshire village of Kingsteignton was one ram. Each spring for many centuries (no one knew exactly when it began) the villagers celebrated a legendary pagan rite: they thanked the gods for their spring water by sacrificing a ram. Then they drank and danced, roasted the ram and feasted on the mutton. Rayner pleaded: "Is the Minister aware . . . that it is very unlucky to interfere with customs and traditions...
...deer park of his 3,000-acre estate, let them shoot a buck. With that slight deviation to modern complexities, the village planned to carry on its ancient rite this week. But Kingsteigntonians were still rankled by the irreverent crack of a Communist M.P. during Rayner's plea. The Commie sneered that this was "one of those heathen customs the Conservative Party wants to retain...