Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson ("Fight for Total Peace Inc."). His plea for charter changes: "We are facing within the next five or six years a preventive war by the capitalistic world to eliminate the threat of the rising Russian giant state. And if this war does not take place, then we are facing in 15 or 20 years a war for the control of the world by Communist Eurasia, led by Russia." Ely Culbertson offered amendments for disarmament, a United Nations armed force...
Rather, it was part of a public-relations campaign. The Maritime War Emergency Board had cut by two-thirds the war-risk bonuses paid to seamen for Atlantic crossings. And Stabilization Director William H. Davis had rejected N.M.U.'s plea to hold up the bonus cut pending this week's War Labor Board hearing on seamen's wages. The pickets were so much display advertising...
...keep out a competitor (although the A.P. membership as a whole will still be able to reject applicants). It also ordered the A.P. to loosen its airtight news-trading agreement with the Canadian Press. In doing so, the court majority paid its disrespects to the A.P.'s familiar plea that freedom of the press was at issue: "Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the Constitution, but freedom to combine to keep others from publishing is not. ... [A publisher has no right to] a peculiar constitutional sanctuary in which he can with impunity violate laws regulating his business practices...
...Southerners also went their peculiar way in another matter. Ignoring an earnest plea by Harry Truman, the potent, Southerner-packed House Rules Committee bottled up a bill to create a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission...
...price of the marriage bed!" roared Associate Defense Attorney John Graham, in a speech so packed with quotations from Othello, Judaic history and Roman law that it lasted two days and later appeared as a book. The jury gave little heed to the prosecution's plea that the case before the court was not adultery but murder. Sickles was acquitted-a national hero...