Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike of 2,000 AFL deck officers operating from Gulf and Atlantic coast ports, which threatened to tie up all shipping in the region, was postponed last night on the plea of government mediators. The strike had been called for midnight...
...economic field, there was scarcely more progress. Responding to Paul Hoffman's plea, OEEC produced a resolution calling for the elimination of import quotas by Dec. 15 on half of Western Europe's private trade (this would leave out a large volume of trade carried on by governments). Paul Hoffman made it clear that this measure had not gone very far to satisfy him. "There is no magic in words . . . the magic lies only in action," he said. "If there is a failure to act ... we may have a new kind of dark age in the world...
This impassioned plea was received last week by Neuroanatomist Wendell J. S. Krieg, of the Northwestern University Medical School at Chicago. The sender was a 66-year-old Montreal widow who had just read newspaper reports of Krieg's paper, New Horizons in Brain Research. The Montreal widow was not alone. By week's end, 43-year-old Neuroanatomist Krieg had received nearly 100 similar letters from blind, deaf and crippled people from Constantinople to California...
...Considered Request. "Unless [your] dollar earnings rise dramatically between now and June 1952 [when ECAid ceases]," warned Hoffman, "Europe's trade with the Americas will have to be balanced at so low a level that it will spell disaster for you and difficulties for us." Hoffman's plea for integration included a warning. Said he: "I do make this considered request: that you have ready early in 1950 a record of accomplishment and a program...
...should the devil have all the good tunes?" asked 18th Century Evangelist Rowland Hill, in a plea for hymns that would rival the popular music...