Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sixth straight term as Michigan's Governor, Democrat G. Mennen Williams is awash up to his green bow tie in money troubles. Last week he sputtered that the Republican majority in the Michigan senate had "doomed the state to a financial disaster" by rejecting his plea for a $50 million bond issue to meet state payrolls and other pressing expenses...
When the legislature convened a few weeks ago, the governor made a desperate plea for a constitutional amendment to permit increase of the debt limit from $250,000 to $50 or $100 million. Last week it was fairly clear that no such amendment would be put on the ballot, and that Michigan Republicans were perfectly happy to let Williams figure a way out of a mess for which they considered him responsible...
...from three more lawmen to lug the copper-tressed spitfire before the judge. The clerk asked her name. "To your regret and my pride, Sarah Churchill." In the box, Actress Sarah, 44, did nothing to help her cause by snarling ad-lib comments on the testimony, made an unconvincing plea of innocence on the stand: "I thought I was monstrously overcharged." Thinking otherwise, the judge fined her $5.60 for being drunk and disorderly. That afternoon, hiding any signs of a hangover, Sarah gave a stunning performance in the title role with the road company of Peter...
Shahn concluded with a plea to artists to put mankind back into art. "Society needs more than anything else to be reminded that man is, in himself, ultimate value. It needs to be reminded that neither the pressure of events nor the exigencies of diplomacy can warrant the final debasement of man. Art is neither use, nor appointed task; but given human compulsions, some intellectual stature and great competence, it can perhaps bring man back into focus as being of supreme importance...
...Dining Hall Department has specious justification for its policy in its plea that an independent kitchen serving an especially attractive meal usually attracts many students through Interhouse. However, since purchasing is done through a single agency, Interhouse sign-ins constitute only bookkeeping changes, and thus are not a valid excuse for instituting a standard menu...