Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Louisiana, Plaquemines Parish Boss Leander Perez urged whites to offset Negro voting gains by "rushing to the registrar's office." His plea had scant effect. In New Orleans, where there are 122,000 unregistered whites, the local registrar one day last week enrolled 386 Negroes−and 14 whites...
...decline in loans to foreigners by U.S. banks of $380 million from 1965's first quarter, caused by President Johnson's plea that U.S. banks "voluntarily" cut back on their overseas lending...
...Fowler refused to predict another surplus for the current quarter. Said he: "Expectations are that we'll lose ground." Just how much ground depends to a large extent on how many dollars are left abroad this summer by U.S. tourists, who have largely ignored the Administration's plea that they help the balance of payments by seeing America first. The Government worries that Americans will spend $2 billion more abroad this year than foreigners spend in the U.S.−a new record. Even more worrisome: the gap between what U.S. business spends abroad and what foreigners spend...
...chop logic that maintains simultaneously: 1) Russia can no longer be seriously regarded as a threat to the West, and 2) by its firm stand in Southeast Asia, the U.S. is inviting Russian retaliation. Both premises are debatable at best; together, they are not an argument but a plea for passivity. The danger of such wishful thinking, as the State Department's Walt Rostow has warned, is that "out of a false sense that the cold war is coming to an end, out of boredom or domestic preoccupations, or a desire to get on with purely national objectives...
Avoiding Damages. By pleading no contest, the companies avoided the embarrassing and costly ordeal of a public trial, and they did not admit any guilt. More important, the plea greatly diminished the chance that injured customers could successfully sue for treble damages. Reason: not only could the steel companies deny the charges in such suits, but the customers would have to prove both the conspiracy and their own injuries without access to the Government's evidence. Clearly, for steelmen who would like to forget about the whole affair, this was the best...