Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ninety top businessmen who are members of the Business Council, a liaison group between business and Government, had just emerged from the Fish Room of the White House. There, in their first meeting with the new President, Lyndon Johnson made an impassioned plea for their support...
...Outpouring. U.S. businessmen have been bullish about the economy for many months, but President Johnson's plea for help, his take-charge demeanor and his conservative appearance seem to have released a whole new outpouring of great expectations for the economy. Said Fred Kappel after the Washington meeting: "We have undiminished confidence in the economic and moral strength of the country." In Manhattan the normally undemonstrative National Association of Manufac turers pledged Johnson its "loyal support and cooperation," then predicted that 1964 would be as good for business as 1963 has been. At a Florida meeting of the Investment...
Indicted by a Dallas County Grand Jury for murder with malice, Ruby could get a death sentence. But his lawyer said he would plead temporary insanity-and if the jury agreed with that plea, Ruby could get off scot-free...
...four Filipinos because the airline had switched their reservations from first class to tourist on a flight to the U.S. The offended passengers, Senator Fernando Lopez and three members of his family, charged that Pan Am gave their seats to white passengers. In rejecting Pan Am's plea that the reservation mixup was an "honest mistake," the judge paid the airline a left-handed compliment: he could not believe, he said, that Pan Am, which advertises itself as the "world's most experienced airline," could make such a mistake unintentionally...
Next morning Kennedy appeared before the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s fifth biennial convention-the last big Big Labor get-together before the '64 campaign. After reviewing New Frontier accomplishments, Kennedy launched into an impassioned plea for the tax bill's immediate enactment-something that he had despaired of the day before. With prompt passage of the tax bill, he said, "we will be sailing by next April on the, winds of the longest and strongest'' peacetime expansion in our nation's economic history...