Word: pleas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battleships proved no more decisive than those of the Kaiser, Hitler fired him, made submarine-warring Karl Doenitz grand admiral of the German fleet. Following Hitler's defeat, Raeder was tried as a top war criminal, sentenced to life imprisonment. Said proud, glory-loving Raeder in a special plea to the Allied Control Council: "I prefer a soldierly death sentence to languishing in prison." Last week, after languishing in Berlin's Spandau jail for nine years, Erich Raeder, 79, and suffering from hardening of the arteries, was set free on a clemency order signed by the four Allied...
...injustices, will be accepted as permanent. It will be an era of change . . ." As if to get that era on its way. he announced that "the Western powers are ready to advance some overall plan of European security which would give the Soviet Union substantial additional reassurances." His closing plea was based on hope: "Let us strive together ... so that when this Assembly meets at its 20th session, it will look back upon the decade that now begins and call it the healing decade of true peace." Smiling & Unyielding. Next day Molotov rose to state the Russian position...
...opportunity of seeing and hearing one of the most important living dramatists drew a large collection of young theater enthusiasts to the Boston University School of Drama last week. Appearing very much at home with his horned-rimmed glasses and quiet, thoughtful manner, Arthur Miller launched into a plea for a new American Theater. Echoing the arguments of William Saroyan and others, Miller said that Broadway suffers from too much commercialism. The huge cost of producing a show, he pointed out, places an author under stifling pressure. The writer's reputation as a money maker, and therefore his future, hinges...
...girls were forced to leave despite a Student Government plea last April that they receive priority on vacant rooms in their respective dormitories. Janet Green '58, formerly of Briggs, and Julie Decker '58, formerly of Moors, are the deposed representatives...
Never Call Retreat. In Helena, Mont. charged with shooting a bear out of season, Willis Kroll at first claimed self-defense, changed his plea and was fined $52.50 when Game Warden William Eckerson testified that the animal had been potted in the tail...