Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scotland's Baptist Union, assembling at Edinburgh, was debating a motion to raise the yearly minimum wage ($1,036 plus a house) of its ministers when a sturdy dockworker rose, announced that his salary was $3,360, and made a strong plea for the underpaid clergy. "That is well said," replied the Rev. John McBeath, assembly president, "but let me remind you that you canna tak the breeks off a Hielan' mon!" Nonetheless, the assembly voted a $140 increase...
...rally. Szent-Gyorgi relayed an appeal on Sunday to American university students from his former colleagues at the University of Szeged, who asked for aid for Hungarian students. The Student Council unanimously lent support to the Hungarian students on Monday night in response to Szent-Gyorgi's plea...
Stevenson, by contrast, has responded to new situations with new ideas. During the campaign, he has symbolized his plea for a fresh approach with the question of discontinuing large-scale tests of nuclear weapons. Stevenson realizes that something is needed besides bigger and better weapons in today's world--something which will inspire people, instead of frighten and mutate them. He sees that a New America and a new world will emerge only from creative leadership. Specifically, in foreign affairs, Stevenson advisers like George Kennan, Chester Bowles, and Thomas Finletter grasp the problems involved in containment, neutralism, economic...
...Soviet tanks rumbled across Hungary, Henry Cabot Lodge rose in yesterday's meeting of the Security Council and urged the United Nations to heed the plea of Premier Nagy of Hungary not to stand idly by while a nation struggles desperately for its freedom and independence. The same plea has been echoed by leaders of almost every other nation outside the Soviet bloc...
President Pusey emphasized yesterday that the forthcoming multi-million dollar "Program for Harvard College" represents more than a grandiose alumni drive. "It becomes," he said, "by extension, a plea for all higher education, which, he added, has been "undernourished throughout the nation's history...