Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waited, famed publicity-sensitive Trial Lawyer Louis (My Life in Court) Nizer, who entered the case without fee at the last minute, brought tears even to the eyes of opposing Assistant State's Attorney James Thompson with the eloquence of his plea that Crump be spared because he was "a rehabilitated man, a newborn man, a transformed personality." Nizer read from 57 affidavits attesting to Crump's change of character, including one from the warden−the culmination of a massive public drive by columnists, clergymen and penologists to establish the principle that prison can reform a killer...
...Soblen, 61, was refused asylum in Britain, as he had been in Israel. Expertly carving himself up with a steak knife as he was being returned to the U.S. aboard an El Al Israel Airlines jet, Soblen gained a stay in London, but British judges were unmoved by his plea of illness and persecution. Britain's Home Secretary told Parliament: "Dr. Soblen is a fugitive from a sentence imposed on him by the courts of a country whose life is based on democratic institutions and constitutional guarantees." Waiting to escort the spy the rest of the way home were...
Pills bought in Europe by her husband alarmed the Arizona housewife whose daily misgivings made headlines across the U.S. last week. A Phoenix judge dismissed Mrs. Sherri Finkbine's plea that the Arizona law permit an abortion in her case. Resolved to have an abortion, she prepared to go overseas...
With each story came the desperate plea to wire money, and eventually, although Esquire paid only $250 to $350 a story, enough was wired so that years later, Fitzgerald's daughter Scottie remembered Pat Hobby fondly enough to speak his epitaph. "He sent me to Vassar," she said, saying...
Long Silence. In 1933, along with Novelist Heinrich Mann, she was forced to resign from the academy for having signed a plea against the election of the Nazis to national office. In time, Germany's new masters let it be known that she was not to be exhibited again. With that, there descended upon her, as she put it, a long "silence." In 1940 Dr. Kollwitz died, and two years later, her grandson-another Peter-was killed on the Russian front. Her house in Berlin was bombed out, and so was the one she moved to in Nordhausen. Finally...