Word: plea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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South Dakota's Senator Mundt, smilingly bemoaning his failure to wear his blue "television shirt," offered similar testimony about a talk he had with Adams alone on Jan. 22. Mundt said that he had been uneasy about the "juxtaposition" in which Adams placed the loyalty board plea and the Cohn-Schine affair. Mundt said that he had thought the topics were "entirely unrelated." Michigan's Senator Potter testified along the same lines about a conversation with Deputy Army Counselor Lewis Berry...
...chief with the means to carry on." It would send to Indo-China several more battalions of troops, crews and mechanics for 25 bombers, and two flotillas of naval craft, plus artillery, tanks and machine guns-but still no conscripts. Then he came to the crux of his plea for support: "I refuse to believe that at the present hour this Assembly intends to provoke a rupture of the negotiations . . . What other policy [than ours] do you propose? Some people seem to rely more upon our enemies than our friends, and it has become fashionable in certain quarters to complain...
...real reason for the purchase, of course, was to vote the 800,000 shares in favor of Bob Young at the Central's annual meeting May 26. Last week New York Supreme Court Justice James B. McNally turned down the Central's plea for an injunction to block the Texans from voting the stock on the ground that the sale violated an ICC order. Unless the Central can find new legal objections, it looks as if the Texans will be able to vote the shares, which constitute about 12% of the total, and bring Young...
Honor Bright. In Perrysburg, Ohio, charged with waving a sign reading "Speed Trap Ahead," then shepherding twelve cars safely past a police radar checkpoint, Scoutmaster John E. Schellpfeffer was fined $50 despite his plea: "I just wanted to do a good turn...
...Lovelorn. In Chicago, police nabbed Carl Mannelli and John Thomas on the roof of the Wisconsin Packing Co. with an assortment of wrenches and a hack saw, took them off to jail despite Mannelli's plea: "Honest, we were just looking for girls...