Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With a plea for a permanent settlement of the problems in the coal mines by a recognition of the positive issues involved, Harry Laidler, executive secretary of the League for Industrial Democracy, yesterday evening in the Winthrop House Senior Common Room addressed a meeting of the University group loosely affiliated with the League on the subject of "Crisis in the Coal Mines...
Meanwhile, Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager, urged the conservation of electricity, reiterating his plea for students to turn out their room lights when they are not needed. Durant said that an accurate prediction of the effect the coal strike would have on the University will be impossible until more is known about how long the miners will stay away from the pits...
Wolfe wrote the play while he was doing graduate work here in Professor George Pierce Baker's "Forty-seven Workshop," and before he achieved fame as a novelist. The play presents the rise and decay of a Southern family during the Civil War period. It is an eloquent plea for the cause of the ex-soldier of that...
Haganah had arranged the café meeting to urge a curb on Jewish violence while there was still hope of winning concessions from the British. Its representative brought a plea from moderate Zionist leaders to "isolate [terrorists], deny them all encouragement, support and assistance." The Irgun and Stern representatives turned down that appeal, and snarled "Jewish quislings" at Haganah...
Count 2, filed last, came after coroner Warren Wainwright analyzed the collective breaths of the three suspects, and declared that the evidence clearly indicated vodka. "We only had one glass apiece," said Witherspoon P. Pugh, Yale '50, in a guilty plea for clemency...