Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PEDDLING OF INFLUENCE by Thomas G. ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, 60, onetime New Dealer turned wheedler for Tennessee Gas Transmission Co., was not out of line, ruled congressional committee, after investigating Corcoran's private pleas to FPC commissioners to grant a Tennessee subsidiary a higher return in a rate...
Of Mice & Muscles. As losses mounted, farmers, Members of Parliament and editorial writers began to ask if it was still necessary for Britain to stamp out animals along with the disease. Sympathetic to their pleas, the British government is spending nearly $1,000,000 a year on foot-and-mouth...
The UGEMA, whose Paris headquarters were raided and shut down in May, 1958, reestablished itself in Tunis and sent out pleas for scholarship aid on behalf of the refugee students.
Dismayed Enemies. At week's end. De Gaulle had sailed as safely through the political storms as through the rain and hail of Algerian weather-though he had stayed out of Algeria's biggest cities. In Paris, his right-wing opponents in the Assembly were reduced to hand...
Pleas for Patrice. In Manhattan's U.N. headquarters, the plight of Songolo bothered almost no one. The loudest laments were for Patrice Lumumba, who, it was rumored, had been mistreated in Colonel Mobutu's army jail, though doctors reported he was only somewhat bruised from the Congolese arrest...