Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sharp observers noted that in his plea for the growth of an organic law of nations, Brownell did not once mention the United Nations...
...work begins when Mrs. Campbell was at the peak of her career and Shaw a merely notorious pamphleteer. Act I contains the story of Shaw's plea to Mrs. Campbell to take the role of Liza in Pygmalion, her frightful automobile accident (which she thought had ended her career), and the final triumph of the opening night. In this act, Kilty turned his play into a play about a play and slipped in and out of actual rehearsals of scenes from Pygmalion...
Knocking down Capehart's plea for a White House advisory commission on monetary policy, Kerr fired first: "No man can help Eisenhower study the fiscal policies of this Government, because one cannot do that without brains, and he does not have them." While gallery spectators gasped and Capehart, outraged, tried to break in, Kerr went grandly on: "If the greatest fiscal experts this nation has ever produced marched in solid phalanx before Eisenhower for months ... he would emerge from the experience just as uninformed...
...billion in foreign-aid funds-the House's Big Two, and the President, too, took a real pasting. The Senate had agreed to a three-year foreign-aid economic-development program, had authorized $2 billion to finance it. The rebellious House, unimpressed by a special presidential plea (snapped Iowa Republican H. R. Gross: "I took my last marching orders in 1916-19"), limited this key Administration program to one year, authorized only $500 million to get it going. Then the House (254-154) cut the President's $3.8 billion foreign-aid request to $3.1 billion...
...count of contempt of Congress for refusing to answer two questions on the identity of persons attending a Communist writers' meeting, put to him last year by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Judge McLaughlin, who had already dismissed the first count on Miller's plea that the Supreme Court had ruled in the Watkins case that Congress may investigate only to alter or initiate legislation, last week fined him $500 and gave him a one-month suspended sentence on the second. Technicality behind the decision: Miller had not challenged the pertinence of the second question, therefore...