Word: pleader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Laborites beamed and patted backs last week on the 21st birthday of the London Daily Herald, the Labor Party's official newspaper. First started as a four-page pleader for striking printers in 1911 and reborn as a general newspaper in 1930, the moneymaking Herald is now Britain's fourth largest daily (circ. 2,000,000), and in its way, a publishing success. Wrote Prime Minister Clement Attlee: "The Labor movement owes it a debt that can never be estimated." Sir Vincent Tewson, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, added: "May our Herald continue...
...face aroused mothers of 18-year-olds whose angry threats filled their mailboxes. Aroused himself, Secretary of Defense George Marshall appeared before the House Armed Services Committee to fight for his U.M.S.T. bill, which would lower the draft age to 18 (TIME, Jan. 22). Marshall was the vigorous pleader of old. He was quietly bitter about the rickety state to which the Army had fallen. He pointed out that MacArthur had been forced to fill out U.S. divisions with Koreans. He was urgent. The U.S. must move men into Korea at the rate of 15,000 men a month...
Emphasizing the need for lobbying today, MacDonald defined a lobbyist as "a special pleader." "A lobbyist," he said, "becomes one of the most important men around a legislative hall, because the legislators depend on him for accurate information on the question in which he is interested...