Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chamber's Clark Haynes Minor confined himself to a plea for the pacts (i.e. for lowered tariffs), because they have been "beneficial to the U.S." The C.I.O.'s bearded Jacob S. Potofsky, secretary-treasurer of Amalgamated Clothing Workers, stole the show with his eloquent argument. Said...
...could do to stand the sight and smell of the parodies of human beings who inhabited them. They were alive by instinct only and by instinct they almost knocked me down when I produced from my pocket one pitiful chocolate bar in answer to a plea of a prisoner for food. At the sight of that morsel of food these filthy, spidery human beings were galvanized by a single impulse: to get a crumb, just a crumb of something to put into their stomachs. I saw the barracks again today-empty, washed and with a clean wind blowing through them...
Sirs: With no son or husband to lose in this war, I consider myself well qualified to present an unemotional plea for the troops that have been active in the European theater of war since June 6th. It is not only unjust but certainly inhumane to send to the Pacific area the combat troops that have fought so valiantly since our landings in Normandy. In the sense of the word "patriotism," almost a year of constant warfare should be enough for anyone...
Like most missionaries, "Smilin' Sam" Higginbottom went to India to save souls for Christianity. When he saw the terrible poverty, he decided that souls could not be saved while the body was starving. Finally the Presbyterian (U.S.A.) mission board heard his persistent plea, brought him back to study agriculture...
...controversial subjects that divide Christendom, one of the most divisive is church unity. Two months ago, John D. Rockefeller Jr. made a well-intentioned plea for church unity (TIME, Feb. 12). Last week, as it must to all such pleas, came a stern rebuke. "Shocking," said Long Island's Anglo-Catholic (high church) Protestant Episcopal Bishop James P. De Wolfe, ". . . and contrary to the doctrine of the Church...