Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arrested in their Manhattan apartment on charges of spying for Russia, Lithuanian-born Jack Soble and his wife Myra replied "not guilty" when a clerk at the federal courthouse last February asked them how they pleaded. Last week, pale, haggard but looking strangely relaxed, the Sobles switched their plea to guilty on a count of conspiring with Soviet agents to "receive and obtain" U.S. defense secrets. Maximum sentence: $10,000 fine and ten years' imprisonment...
...Emergencies Only. It was on that basic principle that the President last week spoke up for his aid-to-education program. At the National Education Association's centennial celebration banquet in Washington, he made his most eloquent plea: "Our schools are more important than our Nike batteries, more necessary than our radar warning nets, and more powerful even than the energy of the atom." To foster that power he asked "federal help to correct an emergency situation." And he meant emergency. "After these new schools are built," he said, "after the bricks are laid and the mortar...
WASHINGTON, April 12--Overriding a last minute plea from President Eisenhower, the House Appropriations Committee today whacked $37,900,000 from the 144-million-dollar budget of the U.S. Information Agency...
...defense plea for probation was turned down, but U.S. District Judge Michael L. Igoe said that care and treatment for Wagner would be provided at the institution. The judge claimed that Wagner might get a conditional release from the center within his first four years there, and an unconditional release if he stayed six years...
...plea of possible self-incrimination should not lead automatically to dismissal of anyone from his job. But this case certainly necessitates a thorough investigation within the trade union family. His only alternative to prolonged humiliation is a quick resignation. In this free country no man accused of taking $320,000 from funds entrusted to his care in a worthy cause can admit that an explanation might incriminate him, and still retain his trust...