Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the judge took the case from the jury. Ethel won round two in the Ontario Court of Appeal. Elmer appealed Ethel's appeal, and the Supreme court ordered a new trial. Ethel won again. Last week the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed Elmer's second plea, rewarded patient Ethel with $7,000. Elmer pondered whether to pay or appeal once more...
Vainly did effervescent Lady Astor seek to settle things. Why not, she asked, let the House vote on teachers' pay without involving the question of confidence in the Government? Other members echoed her plea. But Minister Butler, pale and impatient, roughly retorted: "Childish. ... I am here to give a lead. ... I must put myself and the Government in the hands of the House...
...trial was also a clinical study of unusual interest to doctors and psychiatrists. For it was obvious last week that Defense Attorney Edward V. Broderick would make some plea of insanity involving homosexuality. Again & again he asked discomfited would-be jurors: "Would you be prejudiced, one way or another, against psychiatric or psychological testimony?" The defense would apparently try to prove: 1) that Lonergan was too unstable to commit premeditated murder; or 2) temporary insanity...
...correspondent who went through the fighting and wrote his masterpiece as an "involuntary attack" on the Brazilian army. He wrote it at night, building bridges by day, and the wooden shack in which he composed it, beside his bridge over the Rio Pardo, is a venerated Brazilian relic. A plea for Brazilian unity, it is essentially an encyclopedia, almost as difficult reading as one, with its pages of geology as toilsome as the mountain they describe, its descriptions of droughts as parching as the plains. It is also as informative as an encyclopedia. As a report of military intelligence, with...
Pierre Pucheu's friends hurled back the accusations. They called the trial a Communist plot, decried the lack of documentary facts. General Henri Giraud raised his high, thin voice in a plea that judgment be postponed until France was free again. Gaullists testified to Pierre Pucheu's change of heart toward the Allies just before the landing in North Africa; to support their point they cited documents from General de Gaulle's office...