Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special plea is aimed at married men living in quarters outside the University whose numbers are un-obtainable through any means other than their personal registration...
...could find a sensible answer to the Chinese puzzle. This week in LIFE, the former U.S. Ambassador to Russia publishes his proposed solutions. Even as his report goes to press, the disastrous war news from Manchuria tragically confirms Mr. Bullitt's analysis of that situation and his plea for U.S. aid to the Nationalist forces there. Because of the importance of the subject, the concreteness and urgency of Mr. Bullitt's conclusions, TIME herewith reprints excerpts from his report...
Unanimous approval of President Truman's plea for curtailment of food consumption came last night from the University's American Veterans Committee chapter...
Although Durant asserted he was "entirely in sympathy" with the Presidential plea, food supplies have already been ordered by William A. Heaman, superintendent of House dining halls, for the remainder of this week...
...Politics (TIME, May 12, 1941), Fischer, like many another unblinkered convert, sang the blues of disillusionment. Gandhi and Stalin is the logical outcome of his about-face: a warning of what Stalin is up to and a prescription for stopping him. It is also an awkward plea for Gandhi's "method of nonviolent yet dynamic and direct action which fuses the impatience of revolutionists with the scruples of idealists." Fischer admires Gandhi as uncritically as he once admired Stalin. Like the Mahatma, he "wants to improve the system by improving man." Yet it was Gandhi himself who (a year...