Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through 20 minutes of invective against the leaders of Nasser's U.A.R. ("gangsters and robbers") and praise for Iraq's President Abdul Karim Kassem ("leader of the whole Arab nation"). At last, airily dismissing a defense counsel's request to be allowed to make a final plea to the court, Mahdawi got down to business, passed death sentences on able Brigadier Nadhem Tabakchali and three other Iraqi army officers accused of participating in last March's Mosul revolt against Kassem...
This impassioned and vague plea has its interesting aspects, but seems fatuous. It implies, or rather assumes, the existence of a determined and self-conscious attitude among the writers of post-adolescent love fiction. These tales are obviously intensely personal things and their authors doubtless believe that they are probing the situation to the very limit, which they very well might be doing. It seems a bit ludicrous to hope that a new moral framework (if indeed the whole idea has any meaning), will come from the pens of a group of writers whose entire effect comes from the charm...
...Majority Leader John W. McCormack of Massachusetts and Minnesota's Walter H. Judd. In Boston, Roman Catholic Richard Cardinal Gushing asked people ''to pray in the street, pray any place," during the days that Khrushchev would be in the U.S.*And in Los Angeles, despite a plea by Vice President Nixon that the Soviet leader get a courteous welcome, the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars urged its members to boycott all events connected with Khrushchev's tour...
...help the Government out of its troubles. Congress last week took a tiny step. While it has turned down the President's plea for authority to raise the 4¼% ceiling on long-term bonds, the House approved a bill to permit the President to raise interest rates on E and H savings bonds to 3¼ from the current 3.26%. Cash-ins of E and H bonds during the first eight months exceeded sales by $759 million. The House move, which is expected to win Senate approval, was immediately labeled "inadequate" by Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson. He emphasized...
Monkey Business. The man who ended Mather's success story last week was Democrat John E. Powers, president of the state senate and front runner in Boston's mayoralty campaign. Powers was not impressed by Mather's plea that the university is already losing able teachers; he was more concerned with holding down Boston's tax rate and sabotaging his political rival, Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo, who backed President Mather...