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...enough, Carter asked Glenn, that he had already assured Congressmen that verification would be adequate? For Glenn, it was not. But as the Senator later said, "When the President makes a personal plea to me, I have to honor that...
Cudjoe, speaking to about 20 students at a meeting sponsored by the Student Assembly, made a plea for more white students to enroll in Afro-American courses...
...neck," Alkek avoided criminal charges by cooperating with the authorities and pleading a weak heart (a condition that did not prevent a dove-hunting trip in Mexico). Alkek admitted knowing about and not reporting the fraud and destroying a letter that would have documented the crime. After plea bargaining, he was given only a three-year suspended sentence and ordered to refund $3.2 million of his excessive profits. The refunds will probably be deductible from his income taxes, say IRS authorities...
...Caren Prater, age 25, were found within eight days of each other. At first, the murders received little attention from the media and the police. Gwen Stinson's mother notified local police when she became aware of her daughter's uncharacteristic absence. When they failed to respond to her plea for assistance, Mrs. Stinson contacted as many newspapers and radio stations as she could and urged them to broadcast descriptions of her missing daughter. Only The Boston Globe and WBZN radio agreed to her request. Upon learning of the death of the third woman, Mrs. Stinson led a protest...
...were not for a tightfisted great-aunt, Henry Bloch is convinced he would be just another Kansas City stockbroker today. The rich spinster rebuffed the ex-serviceman's plea in 1946 for a $50,000 loan to launch a large company that would sell office services to small businesses; she only lent him $5,000, Had she been more openhearted, Henry Bloch believes, he and his brother Richard would have started too grandly and quickly gone broke...