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...Provinces." In a partial, and unexpected, dissent, the court's foremost libertarian, Hugo Black, objected to the act's requirements that offending states clear any new voting laws with the U.S. Attorney General or with the federal District Court in Washington, D.C. By forcing the states to "entreat federal authorities in faraway places for approval of local laws," protested Black, the act implied that they were "little more than conquered provinces...
...Senator Barry Goldwater to a Washington audience: "In a savage civil war now raging in New York State between the forces of Carmine De Sapio and the agrarian reformers of Eleanor Roosevelt, our party believes that it is in America's best interest to remain neutral. We entreat you, therefore, Mr. Kennedy, not to lend-lease or supply either side with enough arms or patronage for a decisive victory either way. If this fight can be kept going through 1962, we can re-elect Nelson Rockefeller as Governor without much difficulty...
...read in Albuquerque's Catholic churches last week. Wrote the archbishop: "Such beauty contests are an appeal to the baser instincts ... As the archbishop of the Catholics in this area, I forbid any Catholic to participate or help in any way in said beauty competition, and I entreat parents to prohibit their daughters from doing...
Pardon Our French (produced by Ole Olsen & Chic Johnson) isn't nearly humble enough. Pardon Our Effrontery is the least it should entreat for, and there would be nothing intemperate about Pardon Our Existence. Olsen & Johnson, after achieving the utmost in noise and nuttiness with their Hellzapoppin cycle, have now plunged to the depths of unpalatable boredom. Adopting different and sedater tactics, abandoning the raucous for the merely raw, they have a way of making everything they touch turn to lead...
...victory of the hour, begging peace with justice . . . The peace that came was not God's peace; and because in the ensuing postwar years men's hearts have not been won back to God, I must this day-as a protest against the crucifixion of humanity-entreat your prayers for persecuted, tortured, victimized Cardinal Mindszenty...