Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Witnesses-two MPs-gave their evidence. The women's nattily dressed civilian counsel made no plea, though the women themselves excitedly explained that they had just gone back to their houses to get some clothes. Captain Walitschek listened, found all four guilty, fined them each 2,000 marks ($200) with the alternative of six months in jail. Friedel Souvignier wept, the others protested. The captain was polite but unmoved. He explained to newsmen that he wanted to set an example of severity. This is the way all U.S. Army courts will deal with those Germans who flout its military...
...Democrats and Republicans simultaneously discovered that the other party is sending out campaign literature along with servicemen's ballots. At Miami, a sailor reported that his ballot was accompanied by a plea for the re-election of Michigan's Republican Governor Harry F. Kelly. At Guadalcanal, a soldier opened his ballot, found a letter from Chicago's Democratic Mayor Edward J. Kelly, urging him to vote for Franklin Roosevelt. The two Kellys reacted differently. Governor Kelly denied everything; Mayor Kelly announced that he had sent, not one, but 150,000 letters. "It's legal," he explained...
Italy last week was the new sick man of Europe, and growing daily sicker. Its No. 1 Socialist, Pietro Nenni, voiced the nation's anguish in an anguished plea: "The Allied Control Commission should get out, leave us Italians to administer our misery alone...
This did not mean quick and big production. WPTB Chairman Donald Gordon repeated his "Don't be a grabber'' plea (TIME, Sept.11). But plants equipped to turn out the metal articles could now go ahead and turn them out if they could find men and materials left over after filling Government orders. WPTB added: prices must be kept at 1941 levels...
Spokesman Johnston prodded business to give practical guidance to developing the social security program, and made a special plea for a 50-50 employer-employe sharing of the burden. He cited the fact that the employer currently pays a 4% tax on his payroll towards social security costs, in contrast to a 1% employe contribution. Including workmen's compensation, the employer now pays 84% of the social security bill, the employe...