Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...executive head with full executive powers? Franklin Roosevelt's regular Friday morning press conference came & went without definitive answer from the President. Big Bill Knudsen of the National Defense Advisory Commission had set the country ringing with his blast against the weekend "blackout" in U. S. industry, his plea to machine toolmen-management and labor-to speed up because of "terrible urgency...
...safe until the war was over. Last October he managed to get the pictures from Buenos Aires as far as New York, where they were promptly frozen as part of the assets of France. Stymied, Director Heil started sending letters to Congressmen, even to President Roosevelt. Last month a plea to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau finally turned the trick, and Walter Heil got the pictures to San Francisco...
Roland Young, instructor in Government, opened the meeting with a plea that American liberals, instead of attempting to form a third party or pressure-group of their own, join forces with the existing party which most completely expresses their views. Young added that, in his opinion, the present Democratic Party best fits this definition...
...draft registrant in Harrisburg, Pa. last week thought up a new reason for exemption. His plea: his wife's "prospective pregnancy." Said a member of the local draft board, granting the deferment: "I think at a time like this his wife will need him more than Uncle...
Bread, not Bayonets. At the western gateway to the Mediterranean, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, facing a foodless winter, turned to Britain and the U. S. with a plea for aid. From Britain, Franco asked credit, food and the lifting of the blockade to permit imports to reach Spain...