Word: pledgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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By a ratio of six to one, the student body Friday endorsed the food saving program begun last May as a relief measure for starving Europe, but rejected, three to one, a proposal that would restore desserts to noon menus and substitute a pledge of weekly money contributions.
Eighty-five percent of the voters, polled by the Student Council Food Relief Committee in House and Union dining halls, favored retention of the present bread, cake, and wheat cereals rationing; 14 percent disapproved, and one percent expressed no choice. The money pledge proposal was rejected by 68 percent of...
Although the controversial weekly money pledge was proposed by the Lowell House Committee, only 165 Lowell diners voted. Average attendance at Lowell meals is 340.
Chester Bowles' plan for a breather (not a flat no-strike pledge) was two-edged. By it he hoped1) to save for labor some semblance of price controls; 2) to give the President something positive to say to Congress if, as expected, it sends him a tattered OPA bill...
The labor bosses listened noncommittally to Bowles. They knew that they could never hold their men if prices broke through. They also knew that there was many a political crevasse between a labor pledge and a Congressional fulfillment. Besides, their minds were occupied with an immediate worry. The Hobbs anti...