Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty-eight hours later the government proudly announced to the world that Kostov had been hanged. It also made an extraordinary claim which it did not document; before the end, said the Ministry of Justice, Kostov had made a groveling plea for mercy and a "full confession." The late Traicho Kostov, who was in no position to deny the tale, was quoted as explaining that his defiant attitude in court had been due to "nervous agitation and the unhealthy ambition of an intellectual . . . The sentence is absolutely just and . . . necessary in the struggle against the Anglo-American imperialists." Bulgaria...
...Ready Answer. In three days of speeches and group discussions there was plenty of doing. Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson had a few encouraging words for N.A.M.'s consistent plea for economy in government. Said he: "The $15 billion budget of 1949-50 for our department will be reduced in 1950-51 to $13 billion . . . and our defenses will be appreciably improved. There will be less waste, less duplication, and more efficiency-and the taxpayer will get one dollar's worth of defense out of every dollar spent." From ECAdministrator Paul G. Hoffman there was another encouraging...
Waves of telegrams tickered into the CRIMSON offices over the weekend as colleges replied to the editors' plea for relieving the New York water shortage...
...said the proposal was actually a plea for "honest labeling" of student groups. It would require that any organization which has discriminatory membership requirements in its constitutions must state that its purpose is to conduct activities which require such discrimination...
...overwhelming. Thomas had padded his congressional payroll for eight years with fictitious employees and pocketed most of their salaries for himself. On the third day of his trial for fraud, as some of Congressman Thomas' non-working "employees" prepared to testify against him, he surrendered. He withdrew his plea of not guilty and entered a no-contest plea to four charges of conspiracy and fraud. Liable to as much as 32 years in prison and fines totalling $40,000, Parnell Thomas hoped for mercy-a quality he had never shown in his ruthless badgering of witnesses in the days...