Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This letter is ... a plea ... to do more to back up the United Nations, and to engage in an intensive, positive campaign to stop the fun-poking and degrading comments made about...
Five years ago Lewis won a coal strike on the day the Japs struck Pearl Harbor. In 1943 he had called off a strike 15 minutes before Franklin Roosevelt went-on the air to make a personal plea to the miners to return. Last spring he had announced a truce three hours before he was due to answer a summons to the White House for a showdown with Harry Truman. Now-In the Basement. On Saturday afternoon Washington newsmen got a terse notice that Lewis would speak to them at U.M.W.'s massive headquarters (once the University Club...
...into a steady tide. Even Quebec, against the ancient tradition of living on the land, was turning disturbingly urban, and the Catholic Church was deeply concerned. Last week, in a pastoral letter signed by Cardinal Villeneuve, three archbishops and 14 bishops, the Church raised its powerful voice in a plea : go back to the land. The Church wanted to stop not only the movement to the cities but emigration...
Whither Younger Sons? How much heed the young men of Quebec would give to the plea was questionable. Once predominantly rural, Quebec is now (next to Ontario) the most urban province.* Almost 95% of its 155,000 farmers own their farms. But they cannot afford to buy new land in established areas for their many sons because 1) land prices have risen and 2) mechanization requires larger and thus more costly farms. Hence some 180,000 unmarried sons between 15 and 30 are currently wondering where to farm or whether to farm at all. Many will wind up in city...
...keep the university going and growing since 1921, President Bunnell has made regular campaigns on the floor of the Territorial Legislature in Juneau. Last week he had a more urgent plea. West Coast shipping strikes had cut off supplies, reduced the university cooks to a bill of fare of soup, spaghetti, and milk from the experimental dairy. Warned President Bunnell: unless the university got quick relief, its students would be "freezing and starving...