Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overturning the unanimous recommendation of the U.S. Tariff Commission, President Eisenhower last week rejected a plea by the New England fishing industry that he raise the tariff on groundfish fillets (i.e., boneless cuts stripped from pollock, cod, haddock, other bottom fish) and thus protect beleaguered U.S. ground fishermen against further imports (now 128 million Ibs. -annually, three times higher than in 1945), chiefly from Canada, Iceland and Norway. While fully aware of the domestic problem, explained the President, "I am ... reluctant to impose a barrier to our trade with friendly nations"-and especially with nations whose "economic strength...
Happy Citizens. At week's end, as FDIC prepared to start paying off on insured deposits, a businessmen's committee raced to Washington with a plea: Would the Government permit them to raise fresh capital locally so the bank could reopen? Finally, Washington agreed to charter a new bank to replace Rose's old bank, if the townsfolk would raise $1,050,000. The new Ellenville National Bank would inherit Home National's good accounts, while FDIC would assume the dubious ones, continue liquidation of the old bank. Back home, the businessmen scoured the town, selling...
...lumbered up and stuck its gun into the open door. In his iciest Foreign Office manner, First Secretary Christopher Cope told the tank commander that he needed no Russian protection from "our Hungarian friends." Another delegation of women entered the U.S. legation a couple of blocks away, with a plea for U.N. help. Four Russian tanks roared up; Kadar's cops swung rifle butts, and legation staffers watched police carry off two truckloads of women. A Russian column charged up to a third group outside the Yugoslav embassy, pushed 15 to 20 demonstrators into armored cars, and made...
...single argument runs through both the re-printed reviews and the longish essay which concludes the book, it is a plea for honesty. Mr. Bentley asks that Broadway examine itself in the light of the great theatrical traditions of the past, which, by showing what roles the art of the drama has filled in other societies, can teach us what it should be in our own. It is this plea, and the depth of his insight, which makes the reviews gathered in What Is Theatre? worthwhile reprinting and re-reading...
...response on an undergraduate level quite likely. A smoothly executed series of analytic studies would have effectively curbed the students' desire to either read or respond to the articles, and would have made the magazine's becoming an accepted mechanism for exploring or asserting belief extremely unlikely. While a plea for badness is not easy to support, a plea for the expression of bad thinking, as opposed to its repression in favor of silence and vacuity, is perhaps tenable. The academic presumption that silence is preferable to mediocrity hardly applies in the moral realm. People do have moral attitudes, even...