Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Representative William J. Gallagher, 69-year-old retired Minneapolis street sweeper, had made his maiden speech: it was a nice, kindly plea for unity among the members of the House. Congressmen applauded. Majority Leader John W. McCormack was so impressed that he rose to praise old Bill Gallagher...
Help from Democrats. Meanwhile other Administration bigwigs were dramatizing the role of the U.S. in international affairs. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau appeared before the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce with a fervent plea for adoption of the Bretton Woods monetary agreement. Before a House committee, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson made an able argument for the continuation of Lend-Lease. And Secretary of State Stettinius turned up in Moscow, where he chatted with Molotov and made the required visit to the ballet. Four days later he appeared at Brazilian President Getulio Vargas' summer home in the mountains above...
...pulled out his ace argument. At this very moment, said he, Franklin Roosevelt was "on the verge of" a historic international conference.* At such a time, he argued, the Senate must not slap down Mr. Roosevelt at home. Wyoming's dapper little Joseph O'Mahoney added his plea: "It is time for us to think what this is going to mean overseas...
...After a plea from Solid Fuels Administrator Ickes, some 65,000 miners labored underground an extra day, getting out the coal. But production dropped anyhow, mainly because there were no rail cars to haul the coal to the freezing cities. On top of this, a temporary food shortage was on the way in many an Eastern city. Freight trains as far west as California were shunted on to sidings to wait till the snarl untangled. While they waited, many a grocer cleaned out his shelves...
...tactful Mr. Jones, like many another borrower, sugar-coated his plea for more money. He bluntly recommended that subsidy payments for agricultural products be stopped after the war. Thus Jones served notice on the farmers that the time was fast approaching, as far as he was concerned, when they could no longer look to the taxpayer as a financial prop to support agricultural prices at artificially high prices. But what every Senator knew was that Administration policy can change. The outcries of the farmers, or a crush of postwar food surpluses, might make Administrator Jones's warning more...