Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Services. After the war, he worked as a top assistant to Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson in prosecuting Nazi war criminals at Nürnberg. When Soviet Spymaster Abel was caught, Donovan was his court-appointed attorney. In arguing against the death penalty for Abel, Donovan made a prophetic plea: "It is possible that in the foreseeable future, an American of equivalent rank will be captured by the Soviet Union or an ally. At such time, an exchange of prisoners could be considered to be in the best interest of the United States...
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York continued last night his discussion of the "federal idea" in politics with a plea that the states take advantage of federalism's vitality and relevance...
...Argentine at one point got President Arturo Frondizi to telephone Brazilian President João ("Jango") Goulart from Buenos Aires to plead for modification of Brazil's rigid hands-off-Cuba position. The U.S. had high hopes that Chile would come around; instead, it turned down every plea. Nothing worked, and at the end, although sympathetic with the majority cause himself, Cárcano was forbidden to cast Argentina's "big" vote with the U.S. and the smaller countries, in order not to get out of line with fellow giants Brazil and Mexico...
...wound did not really heal until this century. Yet as far back as 1852, Britain's John Henry Cardinal Newman wrote The Idea of a University, a plea for "cultivation of the intellect." Newman held that a university "is not a convent, not a seminary; it is a place to fit men of the world for the world...
What "astonished" the President was the fact that Government stockpiles of industrial materials that the nation might need in event of war had long since outstripped the scandalous farm hoard, are now valued at more than $7.7 billion.* Brusquely dismissing the plea of "military secrecy," which has long been used to conceal the exact extent of stockpiling operations. Kennedy said that stockpiles now contain almost twice as much material as the Pentagon assumes the U.S. would need for a three-year war. He estimated that the excess supply of nickel alone was worth $103 million, the excess supply of aluminum...