Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just preparing to inspect the Navy's aircraft carrier Hancock in San Francisco Bay, was out of reach of the telephone. Davis messaged the ship by Navy radio to turn on a television set for Knight, then arranged with a TV station to broadcast a tape-recorded plea to the governor. Knight got the message. At 9:02 he called Davis by radiotelephone, granted an hour's stay. Six minutes later, Davis presented a writ of habeas corpus to the State Supreme Court. The answer came down at 10:42: petition denied. Attorney Davis tried again, this time...
Tragedy's Calendar. From Lawyer Davis came the charge that Goody Knight's "open lines" were busy when the governor claimed that they were not. But more important than even the fact that Davis did have an opportunity to make his plea at an earlier date was the clear instance of how a set of confused legal procedures can spell tragedy. On the one hand, said Davis, federal law allows an attorney 90 days to file for a writ of certiorari (a re-examination of the record) upon the State Supreme Court's refusal of a rehearing...
...plan but hesitant to criticize him, kept silent until Hatta spoke out against Sukarno's proposal to set up a "guided democracy" with all parties represented. "Oil and water," Hatta snapped, "don't mix." Hatta had a sane and solid answer to Sukarno's oft-repeated plea that "we cannot ignore the 6,000,000 people who voted for the Communist Party." Said Hatta: "Leave them in the opposition.'' Encouraged by Hatta's stand. Djakarta newspapers took...
...tried hard to get agreement on a paragraph condemning Communist infiltration in the Middle East and to get Nasser to endorse the Eisenhower plan. In turn, Saud beat down Syrian Kuwatly's attempt to express appreciation of Russian help to the Arab cause, and refused Nasser's plea for support of his plan to block clearance of the Suez Canal as long as the Israelis failed to withdraw. "If you block the canal, you don't hurt the Israelis, but you do hurt your friends," said Saud, who has been losing 30% of his oil revenues because...
...been expected to produce a definitive declaration on the Eisenhower Doctrine by what the kept Cairo press likes to call the "free Arabs"-as opposed to the "kept Arabs" like the Iraqis, who belong to Western pacts. It did not. Nasser refused to accept the Eisenhower Doctrine on the plea that it had not yet been fully explained. Saud refused to condemn it. Result: no mention of the doctrine at all, except an oblique insistence that "the defense of the Arab world should emanate from the Arab nation...