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...proposition of our day is peace, and our common enemy is the war which will deny that peace to us and generations to come. I plead with all who will hear to avoid the final catastrophic failure of war. I plead not for appeasement born of fear, but for honest negotiation, long persisted in until understanding comes...
Gold's attorney rose to plead for mercy and to point out that the little chemist, since his arrest, had given the FBI information which led to the arrests of other Soviet agents in the U.S. The lawyer was Philadelphia's squarejawed, conservative John D. M. Hamilton, onetime Republican National Chairman...
...celebrated poet and national hero who falls in love with a satellite of death in the shape of a beautiful princess (Maria Casares). The princess covets Orpheus, takes Eurydice (Maria Dea) before her time. Confused by his love for both women, the poet journeys to the netherworld to plead for his wife's return-and in the hope of seeing the princess again...
Joseph A. Deguglielmo '29, legal counsel for the magazine, said yesterday that he has not yet decided whether he will instruct the Lampoon to plead guilty, not guilty, or nolo contendere...
Williams' lawyers told him quite bluntly that he didn't have a chance to beat the case as long as his teen-age accusers stuck to their story, advised him to plead guilty and get off with a light fine or probation. Said Williams stubbornly: "I just can't go in and plead guilty to something I didn't do." Williams' sordid little police-court case made the front page of Washington papers. He was found guilty...