Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well advanced was this malaise by mid-week that Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson and General Marshall had to go up Capitol Hill, plead for action which most U. S. people already wanted. After three weeks in his new job, 72-year-old Mr. Stimson looked a little worn. His voice quavered, alike from weariness and irritation. But in his grave, informed statement of U. S. peril in Hitler's world, Henry Stimson pulled no punches. House committee quibblers drove him to distraction, finally drove him to his best line of the day: "All this talk of wait...
Improvisations. In Wiesbaden, where the Armistice Commissions met daily, the French continued to plead for the evacuation of Paris...
Leche (convicted fortnight ago of defrauding Louisiana of $31,000) for a Federal judgeship. Last week, when Governor Jones was being feted in Washington, pointedly ignoring Senator Ellender, Little Bull's bitterness overflowed. He rushed to the White House, told the President he was going to plead for the Third Term ("the President looked up and smiled broadly"), and flew to the Louisiana convention...
Those who are most vocal want you to whoop it up, not to think it out. I plead for strength before we bait the bear." >At Cooper Union (Manhattan), Case School's President William Elgin Wickenden told graduates: "The decades of illusion and self-indulgence are over. Your generation may never know security of wealth, of employment, perhaps even of life itself." >Owen D. Young (at Syracuse): "I cannot say that the insistent cry of youth today-jobs, not war'-is wrong, but I can say that unless you are prepared for the second you may never have...
...speak it was plain that self-righteous old Neville Chamberlain had lost his confidence. Taking heart from his nervousness, his opponents, in & out of the Conservative Party, punctuated his every sentence with boos, catcalls, cries of "You missed the bus." Up jumped the bewigged Speaker of the House to plead for order. Thereafter, for 57 minutes the Prime Minister droned on, protesting that Trondheim was not comparable to Gallipoli, explaining that the failure in Norway was caused by lack of airdromes and the speed of German troop movements, defending his leadership as an effort to "steer a middle course." Only...