Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Old Sandpaper. The Admiral's blunt way of expressing himself in public and his earnest pleas for a big Navy prompted Berlin newspapers to attack him as a "warmonger." For some other remarks he made about the regimentation of labor in Soviet Russia he was obliged to make a...
This is only one example of things we can't fail to see and start to wonder about-especially when we hear radio pleas and read newspaper articles on how desperately the armed forces need nurses.
Of all the controversial subjects that divide Christendom, one of the most divisive is church unity. Two months ago, John D. Rockefeller Jr. made a well-intentioned plea for church unity (TIME, Feb. 12). Last week, as it must to all such pleas, came a stern rebuke. "Shocking," said Long...
For three years India had been in a state of suspended political animation. Some 3,000 nationalists were in jail,* their pleas for Indian independence silenced by the fiat of the British Raj that constitutional reform must wait till the war is won. Three years after Sir Stafford Cripps'...
Union Ultimatum. The Dodge local's president, Mike Novak, issued an ultimatum to Chrysler: take back the eight discharged men. The union ignored pleas from the Army, refused to obey a War Labor Board order to go back to work and submit the grievance to mediation. A meeting at...