Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began a new debate over the size and shape of the military establishment. The debate centered on Secretary Forrestal's plan for a 55-group Air Force to be kept in "balance" with Army and Navy strength. Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington, exploiting a popular cause, renewed his plea for a 70-group force, and although he knew full well the desperate manpower needs of the ground forces, upped the Air Force demand for men from...
...indicted in Boston, he ranted that the proceedings against him were part of a worldwide conspiracy against God and man, that he needed no other counsel than "the holy trinity of God: the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost." Judge Francis J. W. Ford ordered a plea of not guilty entered...
...Unheeded Plea. Mrs. Ayrton Gould, a Labor M.P., had her own objections to the death sentence. She said it demoralized prison personnel and made prison jobs repulsive to able people. She recalled the case of Edith Thompson, hanged 25 years ago for helping her lover dispose of her husband. Mrs. Thompson had fainted before her execution. Her limp body was dragged to the gallows. Said Mrs. Gould: "That execution was so horrible that after it, the hangman committed suicide,* one of the wardresses who was present went mad, and the chaplain had a very bad nervous breakdown; and every single...
...decide the question, the Labor government permitted a rare "free vote." Laborites could vote as they chose without regard to the official party stand. Only 75 Labor M.P.s heeded House Leader Herbert Morrison's plea to keep the death penalty. As the teller reported that 245 had voted to abolish the penalty, 222 to keep it, M.P.s cheered, shouted, wept and threw papers into...
...Young Republican Club at the Annex however, had been awarded a full year charter on the members' plea that theirs was not a temporary setup...