Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zealand put up a strong case for a bigger Fund quota, because she has the highest per capita world trade of any country in the world and it is subject to big fluctuations. But Finance Minister Walter Nash announced that in spite of the fact that his plea was rejected he was going back to New Zealand and fight for ratification of the Fund agreement...
Captain Benito Castanedo was expelled from the Mexican Army last week. Facing a firing squad for a drunken, one-man revolt, he was saved at the last moment when his wife and six children appealed to President Manuel Avila Camacho. Their plea: he loved them so much that he had rebelled against a transfer which would have separated him from his family. His sentence commuted to public disgrace, he stood at the center of a circle of troops. An officer plucked off his buttons, tore off his triple bars. Then, to the roll of muffled drums, he marched around...
Governor Warren listened with eyes lowered. Tall, white-haired Congressman John Phillips added his plea: "We wanted you to stay as Governor, but now we have a bigger job for you." Delegate Ruth Buchanan, a Glendale housewife, spoke of his "duty to the nation." The words became more heated. There were mutterings that Warren was being a traitor to his Party, and cutting his political throat as well. A freshman delegate, burly, forthright Movie Producer David O. Selznick (Gone with the Wind, Rebecca, Since You Went Away), stopped such talk. Said he: "Who are we to question our . . . Governor...
Points & Views Brigadier General Frank Merrill, jungle-wise commander of Merrill's Marauders, took time out in Burma to read a letter from the Human Engineering Society of Newark, NJ. Enclosed with a photograph showing the General smoking a pipe was a plea that he and his raiders, as an example to American youth, abstain from smoking...
Veronica Lake, her temper a shade frayed by a thumb broken at a Chicago bond rally, engaged in a shouting contest with a Boston gallery that heckled her soft-spoken plea for the Fifth War Loan. Said she of the extra-long bob: "Who are you? bobby soxers?" Said they: "No!" Said she: "Well, who do you think you're listening to, Frank Sinatra?" A happy ending to the squabble came with the purchase of a $100,000 bond which included the privilege of having Veronica wash dishes at Mayor Maurice Tobin's luncheon...