Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood raptly as rush-hour traffic blatted past on Pennsylvania Avenue. It multiplied as President Harry Truman walked across the street from the White House with three Secret Service men and hurried inside. Madame Chiang Kai-shek was about to come to tea-and to make a last-ditch plea for aid to China...
Radcliffe Student Council yesterday opened a $100 checking account in a Square bank in response to a plea from Betty K. Heaton '51, chairman of the Annex Community Service committee, for permanent funds for the college's only social service group...
Utah Pies. The atmosphere of sweet reasonableness was so pervasive that N.A.M. brought forth none of the resolutions that often raise the hackles of more liberal businessmen. It contented itself with a mild request that the U.S. budget be held to a $37 billion ceiling, and a plea for a "readjusting" of income taxes. It listened politely to the demand, by Chrysler's B. E. Hutchinson, for a return to the gold standard, but gently pigeonholed...
...draft immediately and achieve ultimate repeal of the draft law, YPH will also pursue an independent educational campaign, Gordon stated. This campaign, he claimed, will reflect the Progressive attitude on the "Wall Street" and other aspects of militarization, and include an indictment of President Conant's recent plea for a ten-year military training plan...
...plea for a ballot was rejected, Archer O'Reilly, Jr. '29, secretary of the board, explained last night, "because that is not within the purview of this committee or the Associated Harvard Clubs...