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Mutual's General Manager Fred Weber denounced this as an attempt to "coerce, influence or restrain the free choice of action" of Mutual's affiliates. Mutual President Wilbert E. Macfarlane pled lengthily for ratification, while ASCAP officials lurked hopefully near by. Neville Miller's pleas and the opposition of John Shepard III, bulky, argumentative president of New England's Yankee and Colonial networks whose stations pipe in many a big-chain program, deadlocked the voters...
...typical Fitzgerald ending of Fitzgerald's life, a Fitzgerald novel reworked by somebody else might come as something of an anticlimax. They wondered who could rework it anyway. Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust), Fitzgerald's great & good friend, for whose literary recognition he generously pled in his introduction to the Modern Library edition of The Great Gatsby, was dead too. At the home of Nathanael West and his wife, Eileen McKenney, Fitzgerald attended his last party (and his first in many a day) on Friday, Dec. 13. Day after Fitzgerald died, Novelist West and Eileen McKenney...
...made a speech, declaiming: "If and when I am nominated, I want no one to notify me." He asked for a baby to kiss. Said he: "I will accept no modest sums as campaign contributions-the smallest will be $5,000,000." His colleagues hailed him as another Lincoln, pled with onlookers to wire their delegates collect, draft Timmons for Vice President...
...pronouncements of the New Masses on the recent pact are a confounding structure of logical hair-splitting built upon a sweeping assumption as to the duplicity of all mankind--outside of the Bolsheviks. Let the editors tell you how Soviet Russia pled for a peace front with Britain and France. Let them further explain how the latter powers deliberately sabotaged the negotiations, using them merely as a card against Hitler; how they attempted to isolate Russia and maneuver her into a single-handed war with Hitler. In the light of this, Russia was forced into a rapprochment with the Nazis...
...that it (the Irish Free State) is the "successor" of the Irish Republic. The dispute grew strong, because Eamon de Valera was present early in the trial with counsel to argue that the money should be turned over to himself and followers who collected it. Each side "with clamour" pled the laws...