Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the Governor's eloquence, and other pleas for statehood which were voiced during the seven days of the hearing, the committee postponed its decision indefinitely. As all concerned were well aware, Alaskan statehood was tied up with the statehood aspirations of both
Sacred Idol. Was business the villain? Despite manufacturers' pleas of higher production costs, of less-than-full production, many companies showed lush profits for 1946 and the first quarter of 1947 (although many were operating on dangerously thin profit margins). Business had answered the President's plea for...
Triangle. In Genoa, Italy, Vasco Cavallero got a year in jail for bigamy, despite the impassioned pleas of his two wives, who protested that they were a "perfect family," living cosily together and minding their own business until the law stuck its nose in.
Last week Sherman Bowles's non-union and all but adless Daily News reached 80,000 circulation despite pickets around the building. Its circulation is now half what the entire monopoly's was before the strike. People bought it, ignoring strikers' pleas to take out-of-town...
With traditional contempt for the churlish mouthings of eynies, Harvard undergraduates have energetically launched the Food Relief Committee on its current drive to aid European students. Last night a brief recount of the contributions to date showed that the College program was rumbling down the alley with increasing speed, surpassing...