Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...persuaded the Rockefeller committee to insert in the Defense Department reorganization plan-involved straightening out lines of authority in the Joint Chiefs of Staff. To date, the Joint Chiefs have operated like a loose federation, capable of interservice horse-trading, but seldom of clear-cut decision. Wilson bought the plea of retiring JCS Chairman Omar Bradley for additional authority for the chairman. This touched off a Navy outcry. The U.S., said the Navy's loyal spokesmen, is headed for the "Prussian system" of a single, supreme chief of staff. The spokesmen argued that the Prussian system is too inflexible...
This week the U.S. Supreme Court for the third time refused to listen to a plea to set aside the Rosenbergs' conviction. The decision left the Rosenbergs only one apparent way to escape death in the electric chair: if they tell U.S. officials what they know about other Communist spies, they might possibly win for themselves a presidential commutation of sentence...
...release it until five days later. Under the niceties of diplomacy, letters between heads of state are not made public until both governments agree. By "the time the White House got Prague's approval, the Czechs had already trumpeted the "humanitarian" explanation that it was Laurabelle Oatis' plea that got her husband out of Pankrac Prison...
Though the G.M.-U.A.W. contract (renewed in 1950) still has two years to run, and the union had no legal means of forcing its reopening, G.M. agreed to do so on the union's plea that long-term contracts must be "living documents'' subject to revision in the light of changing economic conditions. Said G.M. President Harlow Curtice, who wants to keep the comparatively strike-free status G.M. enjoys in the auto industry: "[The agreement was] a practical solution to problems created by the Korean war with its resulting inflationary impact...
Final settlement modified the strikers' demands, giving them a 2 1/2 cent wage increase with an additional adjustment for skilled workers. The plea for a union shop was turned down...