Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bracing his lanky Texas frame against his polished first-row desk, Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson early one evening last week delivered his latest plea for nonpartisanship in the U.S. Senate. He had a good partisan reason. Far from indulging in nonpartisanship as Lyndon likes it, Republican Senators were heightening their resistance to pell-mell Democratic antirecession spending...
...stayed up, despite huge excess supplies. The auto industry was having one of its worst years since World War II, and still the U.A.W. demanded "the biggest package ever" for its new contract. Tired of it all, a Chicago banker finally stood up last week and made a strong plea for a little sense-making economics on the part of both labor and management. All these stories are reported in BUSINESS, and for what specifically aggravated the banker, see Wanted: Price Cuts. GEORGE WASHINGTON once slept in Barbados, and Captain Bligh sailed to St. Vincent. Alexander Hamilton was born...
South Dakota's Karl Mundt, who has long since jumped the Eisenhower team on farm policy, began by urging a last-ditch plea for the President to sign. Nebraska's Carl Curtis backed him up, and North Dakota's Milton Young remarked tartly that President Eisenhower had certainly not been talking about farm-prop cuts during the 1956 campaign. Quite the contrary, claimed Young, and added portentously: "Explain that to your farmers." Colorado's Gordon Allott suggested that the caucus might take advantage of the recession by casting the farm freeze as one of the antirecession...
...labor trimmed its wage demands in the face of poor sales and lower profits (see Autos). Last week Chicago Federal Reserve President Carl E. Allen took both management and labor to task for what he called a "price and cost rigidity" that hinders the U.S. economy. His plea: more flexibility as one answer to the recession...
...Hiss case, on which 263 agents of his bureau were engaged, although the chapter on "Espionage and Sabotage" would seem to call for it (Don Whitehead's The FBI Story, which Hoover underwrote, dealt with the case in some detail). Hoover's conclusion is a convincingly humble plea for Americans, particularly intellectuals, to restate the faith of their fathers. He does not mention the plain fact that a great many of these intellectuals have wanted the same thing the Communists themselves wanted-Utopia -but failed to see the secret policeman who lurks behind all schemes to legislate...