Word: pleadingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Eric's kidnapers. Another letter arrived; there were at least two husky-voiced phone calls with additional instructions. France's press was beside itself (announced Paris' tabloid Paris-Jour: "See pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 7, 14, 15"). Roland Peugeot went on TV to plead tearfully for his son's return: "Everyone who has children and loves them will understand me. I have not brought charges and have asked that the kidnapers not be trailed...
...obscurity, Chessman inevitably became a symbolic cause for opponents of capital punishment (see box), all the more so because he was not convicted of killing anybody. French Singer Georgie Vienette, official of an anti-capital-punishment organization, traveled from Paris to Governor Brown's office in Sacramento to plead personally for Chessman's life. Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Nelson Hungria, principal author of the Brazilian penal code (no capital punishment), declared that "Caryl Chessman is the most eloquent assurance of the need to wipe out once and for all the death penalty, that ugly stain on civilization." Much...
...chamberlains know they are viewed as villains by most Japanese. In defense, they plead that they are responsible...
...from Detroit's F. L. Jacobs Co., a holding company, while it was under Guterma controls. To conceal the losses, he set up dummy corporations. Guterma and Eveleigh also withheld information from stockholders, obtained loans on stocks whose value was artificially maintained, even asked a prosecution witness to plead the Fifth Amendment after their trial began. Both men were held without bail pending sentencing Feb. 17. In prison Guterma could only look forward to more of the same. On his agenda: trials on charges of conspiracy in connection with two other companies...
Haughton canceled the Christmas leaves of all his 120 detectives and police, set up loudspeakers at football matches to plead for help, assigned some men to ride all No. 8 buses for any information they might pick up. By Sunday, four days after the murder, police had heard from only one passenger. "A busload of shame!" cried the Daily Herald...