Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stop a While. Not a call to arms for the South, but a plea to the North to "stop for a moment," to hold off forcible desegregation until the South had "a little time" to come to its senses and voluntarily grant the Negro's inevitable equality-this was Faulkner's concern in articles he wrote for LIFE and Ebony that same year. As early as 1948, Faulkner had put a similar plea in the mouth of Lawyer Stevens in Intruder in the Dust. And in a letter to a white student at the University of Alabama...
Natin figured he had a chance. At the meeting last week, he made one last plea for a concordato-an agreement to withhold bankruptcy proceedings. He asked for two years: "ONAPRI can recover its position if it is permitted to continue operating." In secret balloting, some 7,600 creditors favored giving Natin his time, but the margin was short of the required two-thirds. Natin's empire was declared bankrupt, and Natin went back to jail...
Finland, a Swedish colony for 650 years, became a grand duchy of Russia in 1809, prompting the ringing plea: "Swedes we are no longer. Russians we can never be. Therefore we must be come Finns." Finland finally proclaimed its independence in 1917, has been Finnish ever since. An earthy, engaging, moody people who have fought war after war, and always started again from the ruins, they regard sisu, plain guts, as the highest virtue. For, say Finns, "Whatever happens, we will be on the wrong side...
...example of a unicameral legislature, a possibility that was being discussed last week in Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Vermont and Rhode Island? Should two such diverse areas as Northern and Southern California both be dominated by the single county of Los Angeles? Already some Northern Californians are renewing the old plea for statehood of their own. Their rallying cry: "Would you want your daughter to marry a surfer?" Finally, as Governor Earl Warren once insisted, are not the many minority interests more important to the welfare of a state than their population indicates...
...relinquished the floor to Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell, leader of the Democratic bloc that had been filibustering against the most far-reaching civil rights bill in U.S. history. Russell was about to go down in defeat, and he knew it. But his final-hour plea was urgent. Said he: "If this bill is enacted into law, next year we will be confronted with new demands for enactment of further legislation in this field, such as laws requiring open housing and the bussing of children. The country is becoming enmeshed in a philosophy that can only lead to the destruction...