Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lady Violet Bonham Carter will carry her rejuvenated party's program to the country, plead for support for 500 Liberal candidates in Britain's general election, slated for this year. Said Lady Violet: "We fight for power." If the election race between the Conservative and Labor Parties should be close, and if the Liberal Party could win 50 or 60 seats in Parliament, they would have the next best thing to power-a balance of power...
...make his trip worthwhile, Franklin Roosevelt would have to come home with some firm commitments, some firm promises on these and many other major issues. They were delicate enough to make any politician plead for silence, at least until the meeting had ended. After that, the lid would be off, whether the President liked...
...president of the American Chamber of Commerce in London, Wallace B. Phillips, returned to Manhattan last month to plead that the U.S. understand why Great Britain must continue the policy of "Empire preference" in her trade after the war. The short, chubby head of Pyrene Co., Ltd. thus gave many a U.S. citizen his first clear glimpse of Britain's major postwar industrial problem: how to in crease exports at least 50% above pre war levels...
...last May for "shirking." What hurt even more was that the "undesirable discharge"* kept him from getting back his old job. Then 45-year-old Ryland B. Compton, of The Bronx, heard of a provision in the G.I. Bill of Rights covering such grievances, promptly hired a lawyer to plead his case...
...Well might Italians, hungry, wartorn, defeated, alarmed by Tito's claims and without even Orlando to plead their cause, ponder upon the aging symbol in the Palazzo di Monte Citorio. "Now," said one Italian bitterly, "we have only Sir Noel Charles [British member of the Allied Advisory Council] to defend...