Word: pleaders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month the Fund was attacked again for hiring Fifth Amendment-Pleader Amos Landman as a part-time pressagent; it replied that Landman had been hired because he was competent. Subsequently, plans to spend $200,000 to put the Washington Post and Times Herald's liberal cartoonist Herbert Block (Herblock) on TV were scrapped "by mutual consent" (TIME...
...sort that is expected of men and women in a society where the individual conscience is recognized as the supreme authority. It is a course more likely to produce public respect and self-respect than any pleading of a constitutional immunity. And if it does not save the pleader from prison, it will save him at least from an enduring sense of shame...
Almost inevitably, their chairman is Dr. Robert Collier Page, 46. Medical director for the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and new president of the Industrial Medical Association, Dr. Page is the nation's most articulate pleader for a sweeping program of preventive medicine at the plant. Instead of waiting for a worker to get sick and then treating him, he argues, management should protect its investment in his health by doing everything possible to keep him from ever getting sick...
Stevens, a stony-faced, crippled son of a Vermont village shoemaker, was the crude but effective pleader for the Negro in the U.S. House of Representatives. Sumner, a master orator who succeeded Daniel Webster in the U.S. Senate, carried the Negro's banner there. They were the spiritual leaders of the "Radical Republicans," whose pro-Negro stand was far beyond that of Abraham Lincoln. In 1866, when President Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill to expand the Freedmen's Bureau (an agency to aid and educate former slaves), Stevens rose in the House and called the North Carolina-born...
...Foreign Service (TIME, May 25), and particularly your generous description of my being one "who has proved himself one of the best ambassadors the U.S. has ever sent to Latin America." However, rather than "pleading to be kept on," I would prefer to be regarded as a friendly pleader for El Salvador's special role, not only as a nation sympathetic to our objectives, but as the showcase for a dynamic approach to the problems that are currently plaguing all Latin America...