Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dismissals. For Ramadier's Socialist Party the situation was embarrassing. Its official policy was collaboration with the Communists. But after an impassioned plea from Elder Statesman Léon Blum, the Socialist directorate decided on a break. It authorized Ramadier to drop the Communists from his Cabinet. Once more the Cabinet convened. Ramadier told the Communists: "Thank you for your cooperation." The Communists had permit" ted themselves to be dismissed...
Degree. In Utica, N.Y., Archie Police, 43, pleading guilty to an assault charge and sentenced to three months, cried: "I'm not that guilty." He was allowed to change his plea...
...when the College is nearer normal, there should be a general plea for an honor system, coupled with determination to enforce it on the student level, it might be put gradually into effect. Such a move could have the advantage of creating a healthier attitude toward college courses and exams, but the result also can be disastrous. The few dishonest people around will stay dishonest and make the honor system a farce unless the social pressure favoring it is enormous, and at the present there is no such pressure. An alternative at some schools that ostensibly have no policemen...
President Truman's plea for voluntary price reductions has received but a lukewarm response in the Harvard Square area. Of 15 local merchants polled in a CRIMSON survey, the only one to comply completely with President Truman's request was Brice's Sporting Goods Store; which announced yesterday "an across the board cut of 10 percent on every item in the house...
Sacred Idol. Was business the villain? Despite manufacturers' pleas of higher production costs, of less-than-full production, many companies showed lush profits for 1946 and the first quarter of 1947 (although many were operating on dangerously thin profit margins). Business had answered the President's plea for voluntary price reductions with piddling action to date. The C.I.O.'s Phil Murray accused industrialists of "actual racketeering" and "organized robbery...