Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Court judge and Foreign Minister, whose passion to right all wrongs sometimes leads him to wrong the right, shaggy Herbert Evatt had never hit it off with his party's hornyhanded, mainly Catholic trade unionists in the big cities. His indiscriminate sympathy for the underdog led him to plead the case of martyred Cardinal Mindszenty before the U.N., but it also prompted Evatt to lead the opposition when Australia's ruling Liberal Party tried-and failed-to outlaw the Communists in 1951. Evatt's defense of the Reds, high-minded as it was. provoked a rumble...
...relieve Hinh. General Hinh received the Defense Secretary politely, but pointed out that the Secretary was not an officer but a law clerk with no military knowledge. When Chan tried to give orders, staff officers blandly pretended not to hear him. A chastened Premier Diem summoned Hinh to plead with him. For answe, Hinh pulled a batch of telegrams from his pocket from more than 2,000 officers, declaring: "We protest against the unfair measures taken against you. We recognize you as our only leader." Said Hinh: "Now, Mr. President, I cannot leave. I am morally a prisoner...
...Vice President continued to plead for party unity by calling the kettle a pot. There is disunity in the Republican Party. He acknowledged that some Republicans think Idaho's Senator Henry Dworshak is too conservative. "But what are you going to do? Elect that cowboy (former Democratic Senator Glen Taylor) instead?" He granted that other Republicans believe that New Jersey's Senate Nominee Clifford Case is too liberal, "but we've got to get 48 votes in the Senate. Let's get that into our heads...
...plain-spoken Minnesota Republican who was a farmer until he was appointed by President Eisenhower last year to replace onetime Agricultural Secretary Claude Wickard as boss of the Rural Electrification Administration. Shortly after he went into office, heads of the East Kentucky cooperative sought him out to plead their case in the long fight. The REA had authorized $28 million in loans to build a power plant at Ford and 798 miles of transmission line. But after giving the co-ops $15 million, the Government agency had stopped handing out cash, pending the outcome of the drawn-out court fight...
...sensitive position. The requirement that a man in this position should relinquish the right to the complete freedom of association that would be his in other circumstances is altogether a reasonable and necessary requirement ... It was particularly essential in the case of Dr. Oppenheimer. It will not do to plead that Dr. Oppenheimer revealed no secrets to the Communists and fellow travelers with whom he chose to associate. What is incompatible with obedience to the laws of security is the associations themselves, however innocent in fact...