Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Star "for the next ten years" went to longtime Editor and Publisher William Rankin Mathews, a crusading newspaperman best known for his 1953 exposé of an Arizona real estate swindle. The arrangement apparently convinced U.S. District Court Judge James Walsh, who denied the Government's plea for an order restraining the sale...
Despite Twentieth Century-Fox's plea that it has millions tied up in the film, it was Greenberg's opinion that "the rights of property and of privacy far outweigh any financial consideration." Fox "should have known that it could not appropriate another's property, created as the result of years of sacrifice and endeavour...
...good bond rating became especially clear last week when two separate Mississippi issues were put on the market. Bankers hardly nibbled at-the first one, a $24.6 million water-supply-district issue bearing a Baa rating. The rating made the real differ ence, Wall Streeters insisted, and not a plea by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for investors to boycott the state. The next day two Mississippi school-improvement issues totaling $8,775,000 were snapped up by two New York syndicates. Moody's (Aa) and Standard & Poor's (A) had decided that...
There was no immediate response to the plea...
...sweeping vistas but in the close-up details of rock, water, and unique life forms that would be drowned by the dams. The narrative starts with the story of a hazardous 17-day boat trip the author took through the Grand Canyon, and rises to a reasoned, passionate plea for preserving the place unblocked by the curved concrete of progress...