Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military strength, the U.S. should concentrate on limitation and reduction of arms at war's end, as a "demonstration of good faith"; 2) a large standing army with an active bureaucracy and a permanent conscription system must ultimately undermine democracy. To these they added another, more contemporary plea: that those now in the Army & Navy be given an opportunity to express their views...
...Price Boss Chester Bowles the amendments spelled catastrophe. A onetime Manhattan adman, Chet Bowles works daily in front of charts showing that U.S. cost of living in World War II did not rise as sharply as during World War I (see cut). To him, Harry Truman's plea to hold the price line is an injunction. Cried...
Charles Spencer Chaplin lost a plea in Los Angeles Superior Court for a new trial of the case in which he was judged the father of Joan Berry's 20-month-old daughter, Carol...
Hats off to Chicago University's President Hutchins. His logical, reasonable plea for mercy for the war criminals, a term now applied to all enemies, both civil and military, proves him to be not a responsibility-ducking "softie," but a farsighted, sagacious person...
...National Socialist League and a Manchester show girl. During the sad days of Dunkirk and Norway, the horrors of the blitz and the better days that followed, Britons listened with amusement to Joyce's silken sarcasm and twisted truth on the German radio. They often noted his plea: "To some I may seem a traitor, but hear...