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...York State Federation of Labor, George Levy, manager of Roosevelt Raceway, and former Democratic Mayor Meyer Ellenstein of Newark. Paul Troast, New Jersey construction tycoon and the G.O.P. candidate for governor, proved his friendship in another way: he had written to Governor Dewey in 1951, he admitted, to plead for a commutation for Joey...
...victorious Allies, of course, favored the complaisant Sultan, but in their greed they served to further Kemal. The Sultan and the Grand Vizier went to Versailles to plead not to be denuded of all land and power. Clemenceau, the Tiger, said coldly: "Be silent, Your Highness! Relieve Paris of your presence." The Allies handed the Sultan the Treaty of Sevres, which split Turkey six ways. The Greeks marched in to enforce the Diktat, and Kemal roared: "Turks! Will you crawl to these Greeks who were your slaves only yesterday?" He raised an army of peasants, veterans, criminals, patriots. Two years...
...have a job in which there are some eight balls that we're associated with," said Topeka's famed psychiatrist, Dr. William Menninger (TIME, Oct. 25, 1948), in a talk last week to a Chicago convention of 1,500 supermarket executives. Menninger had come to plead that U.S. industry, which provides first-aid stations for physical ills, should start providing the same service for emotional ills...
...Social origins?" asked the court chairman. "Son of a miller," came the halting, hesitant reply. "Does the defendant plead guilty?" "Yes," said the same slow, careful voice. It paused, then went on: "I confess ... I repent...
...moved in on Wanzig, and got four hospital employees fired as accomplices. (Said a Chicago cop: "This confirms my thought that confirmed horse players can find a home anywhere.") But right there the law ran into a dead end. Wanzig's defense against prosecution is airtight: he can plead not guilty by reason of insanity...