Word: please
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Telephone callers from Western Europe, Latin America, Africa and Australia have importuned Governor Brown to spare Chessman's life. Brown has received save-Chessman pleas from Belgium's Queen Mother and from the Social Democratic members of Italy's Chamber of Deputies. Secretary of State Christian Herter...
Climax & Philosophy. In this melodramatic fashion last week came the climax to one of the most remarkable episodes in U.S. criminal annals. The man thus saved -if perhaps only temporarily-was convicted twelve years ago of 17 felonies and sentenced to death on two of those crimes, both of them...
His arguments ranged from pleas that the trial transcript was faulty (the court reporter had died before he completed transcription of his notes), to claims of new evidence proving his innocence, to declarations that all the delays (occasioned by his own persistence) had been torture and punishment enough for a...
It would have had scant chance of success. I.B.E.W. Local 26 has defied all pleas, threats and cajolery. In 1957 the President's Committee, headed by Vice President Nixon, invited executives from 13 international and local building-trades unions to a meeting to discuss dropping the color bar; only...