Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ex Post Facto. In San Francisco, Judge Harry Neubarth heard the pleas of three shoplifters, let them go, later found they had walked out of the courtroom with the two pairs of nylons he had bought for his wife.
"It is in one sense this conflict of loyalties which makes it so difficult to deal with even the best-intentioned of men when the racial conflict is in question," wrote Vincent Sheean in the New York Herald-Tribune last week. the acceptance of the social arrangement under a code...
Some 15,000 drivers of three teamster locals were out of control. They shouted down their leaders' pleas to accept one proffered settlement, shouted down proposals to return to work pending an agreement on wages & hours. They blocked many nonstriking drivers from working. They had just about choked off...
The accused made their last pleas to the bar, to the German people and to history. The strong ones spoke as though they were still addressing a Nürnberg party rally, reaffirming the faith by which they had lived and killed. The weak ones merely whimpered professions of their...
Last week the bonus was knocked in the head again. Ohio's Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) common pleas court upheld a Republic stockholder's contention that the extra $51,000 was too much of a good thing, ordered bluff Tom Girdler to give it back. Judge Stanley L. Orr...