Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phillips Brooks House's Travel Introduction Bureau sent out an urgent plea for more cars yesterday when the travel secretary reported that she has received 75 requests for rides but only 15 places offered...
...plea for basic human rights which must belong to black as well as white, lest all Africa be driven in time toward a racial holocaust. He quoted Herero tribesmen who dreaded annexation by South Africa: "We shall be destroyed if we are incorporated." The natives preferred "the shadow of the British Crown" to the shades of South African apartheid. Respectfully, they begged for further U.N. hearings or a U.N. inquiry, and for the transfer of South West Africa to U.N. trusteeship...
Instead of becoming President, Herbert Burgman, a bald, frail, unimpressive little man, became the most thoroughly indicted traitor in U.S. history (69 counts of treason). On trial in Washington's U.S. District Court, he tried to save himself with a plea of insanity...
...plea failed. Last week, confined to a wheelchair by a heart attack, 53-year-old Herbert Burgman became the twelfth U.S. citizen to be convicted of treason during World...
...announced that "an over-zealous publicity man was the guy who . . . got 30 or 40 of them right down in the front row and told them that they should agitate and squeal and holler . . ." Then, presenting Bill Lawrence ("the boy you love so much"), Godfrey made one final plea: "He loves your appreciation, but you don't have to squeal. Just applaud him when he gets through...