Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again, the Labor Government, which is powerless against the unions whence spring its votes, failed to implement its pleas for greater production with hard measures to achieve them. The White Paper inveighed against "restrictive practices" by both labor and capital. It urged more output per worker. But the truth was...
At week's end, the students' pleas had worked again. Sproul was staying on: "I believe this is a straight furrow. ... I shall not take my hand from the plow to which it has been set for the past 17 years."
Desperate pleas for food for undernourished University students all over the world were answered in part yesterday by Student Council President Levin H. Campbell, 3rd '48 as he announced Council authorization of a second emergency food relief campaign that will attempt to raise $25,000 from University students and faculty...
Standing grim and invincible, the Wigglesworth gate has long been the nemesis of late returning Yardlings. Deaf to their most suppliant pleas, the truculent barrier has continually forced weary revelers to make a long trek through the barren Cambridge wastes to other, more understanding entries to the Yard. Numerous petitions...
As to rents, the President himself implied that "some adjustment" will be required. The OPA went to work on a survey to determine if and how increases should be allowed. The expectation: busy days ahead hearing the pleas of landlords.