Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Each morning he slipped away to the telephone for an up-to-the-minute briefing on the State Department's incoming cables. What he heard last week was the succession of hard facts which precipitated the President's call for universal military training and selective service, his plea for speed...
Until a dramatic plea by Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, calmed the gathering, violence threatened on more than one occasion. Professor Sorokin appealed to the opposition, asking them to hear the speakers without voicing protest, and asserted he would be keenly disappointed if the right of free speech could not be heard at Harvard...
...addition, certain other formal conditions were not satisfied by AYD in its first petition. These stipulations have apparently been met in the new plea...
...blood. With only 150 donors lined up for bleeding today and Friday, and with most of those paying return engagements, PBH issued a plea for new, untried students to come and add to the flow last night. The doors of PBH will be open to unregistered donors from 11 to 5 o'clock during the two day drive...
...several committees in these New England colleges have a job to do and they must do it quickly. In opening the ERP debate yesterday on the Senate floor, Senator Vandenberg urged his colleagues to pass the bill within two weeks. His plea for speedy action has been sharply underlined by the rapid turnover of events during the past week across the Atlantic. But the determined Congressional opposition to vital aspects of Marshall's proposals will not necessarily be jolted into line by news of the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia or the ominous pressure put on Finland by the Soviets...