Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less and less of your family." As a rising young Republican lawyer in Cincinnati (who still defends a first vote for Franklin Roosevelt), he dabbled in politics, got elected to two terms (1950-53) as a city councilman. Appointed by President Eisenhower in 1954 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee), he won the respect of lawyers and the U.S. Justice Department for his solid, keenly reasoned opinions, showed a flair for casting opinions in clear and forceful English. Wrote Judge Stewart, upholding the habeas corpus appeal of a prisoner who had been...
...Chiang's immediate response was to announce that he rejected the appeal "firmly, vigorously and unequivocally.") In Taipei last week Chiang Kai-shek told crowds celebrating "Double Ten"-the Oct. 10 anniversary of the foundation in 1911 of Sun Yat-sen's Chinese Republic-that the cease-fire was just another piece of Communist "political treachery." But in Warsaw the U.S. pressed the unyielding Chinese Communist bargainers for an extension of the ceasefire, and at week's end Peking announced that it had decided to keep the guns silent for another 14 days...
...even Peng himself apparently expected Chiang to heed Peking's appeal for direct negotiations with the Nationalists...
...Proposals. Then the bankers took over-men by no means indifferent to Nehru's appeal, but aware of other necessities too. Bearing a letter from President Eisenhower urging help to the impoverished giants of all continents, U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson proposed that member countries increase their contributions to both the World Bank, which lends money to its members at regular bankers' rates, and to the IMF, whose funds are available to shore up sagging national currencies in an emergency. Backing Ike's suggestions, the boards of governors of both Bank and Fund agreed unanimously to boost...
...Bank President Eugene Black of the U.S. came a final reminder to the have-nots of the world that they could expect little sympathy-or help-if they failed to perform the unpleasant and unpopular duty of putting their own financial houses in order, or if they tried an "appeal to sentiment or exploitation of a strategic position in the international political lineup." But Black urged action by the haves on the "imaginative and constructive" U.S. proposal for Ida. "There is a real need," said Black-and the delegates had to look no farther than the side streets of Delhi...