Word: pleaded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even cotton manufacturers, who have not been able to plead higher raw-material prices, have pushed broadcloth prices up from 4 to 25%, print cloth 13 to 14% anyway. By December this wholesale price situation had raised store prices from one to four percent over pre-war levels for suits, underwear, sheets and blankets...
...these two ends, the first was more immediate. The President moved to answer criticisms of the Defense Commission, by a new organization. He turned laconic Commissioner William Knudsen into a pamphleteer to state the "terrible urgency." plead with the U. S. to "roll up their sleeves...
Prosecution of non-registrants will probably be mild at first. Those who forgot or for any other reason were unable to register will have to do so. Those refusing to register as conscientious objectors will be forced to in court and probably will lose any right to plead for deferment. Draft dodgers who attempt to conceal themselves will face the F.B.I. and be liable to a $10,000 fine or five years in prison...
...Opened a second office in Chicago, a new branch in Seattle, held a rally for 10,000 at Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, sent out a Youth Caravan of young speakers to plead for aid to Britain in 45 New York and New England towns...
...rates are upped, the three proposals should then go through intact under the leadership of Congressional Tax Boss Pat Harrison, who is working for Mr. Big again. The advantage to Defense was made clear by Secretary of War Henry Stimson, who appeared before the House Ways & Means Committee to plead for the whole bill. "Uncertainty," said Lawyer Stimson, "in respect to the industry's right quickly to amortize its investments in expanded construction, and also the uncertainty as to the amount and character of taxation which will be levied . . . have chiefly prevented the execution of these [Defense] contracts. . . . Definite...