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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...
Britain's Laborites beamed and patted backs last week on the 21st birthday of the London Daily Herald, the Labor Party's official newspaper. First started as a four-page pleader for striking printers in 1911 and reborn as a general newspaper in 1930, the moneymaking Herald is now Britain's fourth largest daily (circ. 2,000,000), and in its way, a publishing success. Wrote Prime Minister Clement Attlee: "The Labor movement owes it a debt that can never be estimated." Sir Vincent Tewson, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, added: "May our Herald continue...
...face aroused mothers of 18-year-olds whose angry threats filled their mailboxes. Aroused himself, Secretary of Defense George Marshall appeared before the House Armed Services Committee to fight for his U.M.S.T. bill, which would lower the draft age to 18 (TIME, Jan. 22). Marshall was the vigorous pleader of old. He was quietly bitter about the rickety state to which the Army had fallen. He pointed out that MacArthur had been forced to fill out U.S. divisions with Koreans. He was urgent. The U.S. must move men into Korea at the rate of 15,000 men a month...