Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is plenty of reason for a presidential plea to do something about wheat. The present wheat-support program (75% of parity, with a 55 million-acre limit on planting) is building toward a record 1.5 billion bushel surplus next year (cost: $3.5 billion). Benson's solution, which Congress ignored this year in passing its own bill, which President Eisenhower vetoed, would do away with acreage controls and include price supports that slide a little each year toward true market levels...
Even De Gaulle's new friends, the Germans, were upset at what they considered France's upstage attitude. An influential group of Christian Democrats in Bonn wired Konrad Adenauer-vacationing in northern Italy-a plea to intervene in Paris. Warned the influential Die Welt: "Let us hope that De Gaulle's policies will never force us to choose between France and the U.S., for in that case we would have to say goodbye to France. We would say so with a bleeding heart. But goodbye it would...
...Plea in Abatement. In Phoenix, Ariz., charged with kicking his sister, her two boys and the family dog, James Walsh told the judge, "I didn't kick...
...case thrown out of federal court on the claim that his Washington hotel room had been bugged by a former investigator for the subcommittee, but, although his claim was true, the contempt charge remained on the docket. Last week, when he came up for trial, Goldfine, 68, switched his plea from not guilty to nolo contendere (no contest), threw himself on the mercy of the court. Said Federal Judge James Morris: Goldfine's plea is a "complete vindication of the committee. [It] admits all of the relevant facts that are raised by the issue of pertinency and the right...
...steelworkers in 1956 after Labor Secretary James Mitchell and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey pressured management, knew that this time both Nixon and Mitchell were anxious to see a no-strike settlement. But the Administration stuck firmly to its hands-off policy. When President Eisenhower later renewed his earlier plea for an indefinite extension of bargaining, Dave McDonald wearily turned it down, announced that the union would strike this week if it did not win a new contract...