Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just the thought of his coming vacation at Key West and that bright Florida sunshine had brought him back to bubbling good humor. Brisk and smiling, he waded through a man-killing schedule, clearing his desk for the big day. He went on television with a plea for the Red Cross campaign, accepted a leather-bound manuscript on "How to Be Prepared" from three bright-eyed little Girl Scouts, saw a group of Negro leaders, shook hands with oldtime Socialist Norman Thomas, and brushed off his weekly press conference in 13 minutes with a record burst of no comments...
...changed. She had embraced a new cause: Communism. She became friends with Mao Tse-tung and other top Reds. Her letters from within Red China to her father in Seattle grew more & more shrill in their denunciation of U.S. policies. Last May she rejected her father's plea that she come back to the U.S.: "Whenever I hear from any of my progressive friends it's the same story. Persecution, false accusations, rigged juries, illegal court decisions . . . How can you want me to return to such a life? It would be like returning to a nightmare world...
...owns a successful AM station, WTAO. Evidently, this approach has had considerable success with advertisers while still holding the audience. Perhaps the reason is that the station makes it clear through occasional talks between programs that it cannot continue unless the listeners support its advertisers. The response to this plea for loyalty and to this new advertising policy has been startling. Boston stores report that WXHR listeners from as far out as Worcester come all the way into town to buy records and radio equipment that they could have bought three blocks from their homes...
...whole thing was as stylized as the synopsis of a soap-opera plot. Exasperated by India's refusal to support the U.S. position in the United Nations, Congress was in no mood, week before last, to discuss India's plea for 2,000,000 tons of grain to feed its famine-threatened millions. Texas' Senator Tom Connally had pointedly announced that India would have to wait while a Foreign Relations subcommittee "looked into" the whole question of U.S.-Indian relations. Would Congress relent? Would India be left to starve...
Matter of Principle. In Sheffield, England, Walter Marshall admitted his guilt and was fined ?50 for breaking a store windowdespite his plea that he threw the stone in outraged innocence after being unjustly fined ?10 for breaking the same window...