Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo, Yamashita's wife rejected a suggestion that she appeal to Mrs. Douglas MacArthur. Said she: "The American method of justice is admirably fair. I am pleased with it. I thought my husband should be put on trial . . . because he took command ... in the front." This did not mean that Mrs. Yamashita, too, condemned her husband; she was merely answering a question politely, like a Japanese lady...
...called both an ultra-nationalist and "the most pro-American man in Brazil." He neither smokes nor drinks, goes regularly to Mass, is a bachelor (but Rio rumor said last week he might marry a Spanish Socialist). In the campaign his democratic backers played on the handsome Gomes' appeal, advised Brazil's recently enfranchised women to "vote for the Brigadier, handsome and single...
...counterproposal to the Nov. 20 ultimatum. The negotiations, as events eleven days later proved, were over. On Nov. 30 Churchill again urged the President by cable to warn the Japs that any further aggression would "lead immediately to the gravest consequences"; instead, Franklin Roosevelt sent his now-famous personal appeal to Emperor Hirohito...
...effect all were presumed guilty. Each defendant would have the right to address the court, but not the right to keep quiet. There would be some 50 prosecuting, some 20 defense attorneys. Each verdict would require agreement by three of the four judges. The only court of appeal would be the Allied Control Council...
...coalition had a tough fight ahead. Already Perón's sound trucks raced through the streets, extolling the Strong Man's achievements in "social justice." No sensible Argentine discounted the Strong Man's appeal nor failed to note the steady expansion of his political machine in the hinterland beyond Buenos Aires. Everywhere his police, mayors and governors could be counted on to work wonders, by intimidation or otherwise...