Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...habits of 96 years are not easily broken. Last week a short plea from the Times's assistant managing editor appeared on the Washington bureau's bulletin board. It read: "Turner Catledge suggests that the composing room has an unlimited supply of periods available to terminate short, simple sentences in Washington bureau copy...
With the presentation yesterday of a check for $12,000 to Mrs. Priscilla Greenhalge, agent of the Unitarian Service Committee, the University gave its answer to President Truman's plea for aid to Europe's starving millions...
...finds the American Liberal a man without a party, but not a man without hope. By 1948 post-war escapism may have run its course. When the nation has "had enough" platitudinous political ponderosity and the public voices a plea for effective, progressive leadership, the Democratic Party will be eager to follow the program of its liberal membership...
...essence, the Steelman report was a plea to businessmen, farmers and organized labor to go easy on price and wage increases. With the political heat turned on for junking Government controls, it was also a plea for retention of controls. Some of John Steelman's facts were open to dispute. He predicted that rising prices would create a wage-price spiral. Commented the New York Times: "[That] implies that it has been price rises that have been forcing wage rises. In the last year the causation has been the other way around. . . . The Administration . . . encouraged and sometimes compelled wage...
...victor of Tatung was General Fu Tso-yi, 51, governor of Suiyuan since 1931, Confucian protege of old Shansi "Model Governor" Yen Hsi-shan, and known in Kuomintang China as an able, honest, austere soldier. In the hour of victory General Fu took up his brush and addressed a plea to Communist Party chairman Mao Tse-tung: "The battle has taken the lives of at least 20,000 of your troops. We have buried them and wept over them. How sorrowful was the picture as they fled in fright, bleeding and falling by the roadside. I could not but press...