Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weeks of negotiation lay ahead before Belgium would get a new government. In the meantime, Eyskens, tired of it all and now without major influence, would stay on as caretaker Premier at the urgent plea of King Baudouin...
...wagon." Bridgeport, Conn., promised to purchase new vehicles for its entire police fleet; Stockton, Calif., advanced the date for purchase of 16 police cars; and Port Huron, Mich., ordered three police cars and two trucks. The city manager of Kennewick, Wash., got so carried away by Mariani's plea that he not only issued orders for five new city cars, but went out and bought a new Buick Invicta, talked a neighbor into buying...
...They joined Republicans and some Northern Democrats in believing that the bill would work some hardships on farmers, retailers, small businessmen-and would in fact prompt employers to cut down the work force, thus increasing unemployment at the unskilled level, where it hurts most. Argued Kennedy, in a pointed plea at his press conference: "I find it difficult to understand how anybody could object to paying somebody who works in a business which makes over $1,000,000 a year by 1963 $50 a week." But even then the Administration was already shopping for a compromise...
...federal aid. says Msgr. Frederick G. Hochwalt, education director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference: "It's the token of being part of U.S. education, our plea for recognition." Should Catholics get aid. Hochwalt figures that it would add 15% to the Kennedy school bill. The loans, say most bishops, would go to diocesan building-loan funds, freeing cash for lay teachers. Failing aid, says Chicago's McManus, "we will just have to further systematize contributions, in the nature of assessments and taxes." In any case, says Hochwalt, "it's not so much the amount of federal...
Danger in Power. Last week Columnist Shannon went farther than ever before —,with a plea to intellectuals not to follow Kennedy blindly. Wrote he: "The love affair between the intellectuals and President Kennedy is a striking feature of the political scene. This romance may be fine from the viewpoint of Mr. Kennedy, but it is doubtful if it is a wise venture for the intellectuals...