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...Public Be Damned." The last thing that Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg did before his appointment to the Supreme Court was to plead in vain with the telegraphers not to strike. Last week his successor. W. Willard Wirtz, who used to ride the North Western home from work every day when he was Adlai Stevenson's law partner, was also getting nowhere. At week's end, as Ben Heineman riffled through mounds of letters from his commuters urging him to hold fast, the telegraphers dug in for a long siege. At that point, the liberal Milwaukee Journal was reminded...
...sometimes jabbed lawyers, and even fellow Justices, with sharp-edged remarks or questions designed to make them get to the point. But no one could doubt his deep devotion to the law. A Harvard colleague once said to him chidingly: "You take law awfully seriously." To that, Frankfurter could plead guilty...
Widely blamed for the violence are the ragtag followers of Joshua Nkomo, burly African boss of the Zimbabwe African People's Union, whose black nationalist organizations have twice been banned since 1959, only to reappear under a new name. Mild-mannered Nkomo, who has shown up frequently to plead his case for freedom at the U.N., insists that his group has refrained from violence. But he has yet to convince the government of Southern Rhodesia's white Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead...
Many businessmen simply ignore foreign requests for information and prices on their products. The Commerce Department had to plead with one St. Louis machine-tool maker to answer repeated inquiries from a British company (in the end, he made a sale). One machinery man- ufacturer in the state of Washington still stubbornly refuses to answer an inquiry from Australia. And only after Commerce Department urging did a Minneapolis firm reluctantly agree to sell its special lubricating oil to Nigeria. Too often foreign trade seems too complicated, too marginal and too risky...
...Prime Minister during a Senate confirmation hearing-two years ago merged his Darling Stores into Grayson-Robinson and rapidly opened 43 discount branches. Expansion cost more than it brought in. When Manhattan's Bankers Trust called its $6,400,000 note last week, Gluck had to plead for a breather. Since his firm's assets exceed its debts, Gluck may well ride out the crisis...