Word: pleases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶Ignoring Administration pleas for moderation, ignoring organized labor's threats to purge them, come election time, the House passed (231-10-141) the Smith-Connally strike-and-labor-control bill. Aimed squarely at John Lewis, the bill bristles with restrictions on labor. Mildest Administration slur at the measure...
What really pleased everyone was that this week's transport trickle may turn into a respectable flow of planes by midsummer. For months both the Post Office and CAB have backed up the airlines' pleas for planes. CAB is now pushing for "a substantial number" of brand-new domestic transports. Since transport plane production today is also "substantial," the tide may have turned for domestic airlines...
"The U.S.S.R. Expects." There was a difference between the British second-front clamor of last year and this voice crying in the bewilderedness. The outcry last year was truly popular. It was based on a widespread impression that the U.S. and British leaders had no plan and were doing nothing...
True or false (and at week's end the truth was unclear), even the report of the strike came to Curran as a bitter blow. For it severely prejudiced two pleas which he had just made to top officials in Washington. One plea was that the Navy remove its...
Punjab Province in India was curry-hot with religious conflicts and revolts against British rule until 1937, when moderate Sir Sikander Hyat Khan, member of a distinguished Moslem family, became Premier of the Punjab. By straightforward administration and sense-making pleas for Hindu-Moslem unity, he succeeded in uniting the...