Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plea for Teaching...
...Shaw's rationale, his passionate plea, his drole cajolery, will do much to arouse that will-to-equality, and even more to stimulate women, and their men, toward intelligent consideration of some solution, whether it be socialism, or some other...
...promises not to emplay war as an instrument of national policy, with no exception in reference to violations of the Monroe Doctrine. Not accepting arbitration in such a case, the United States would be shackled by its renunciation pledge and unable to resort to force except through the weak plea of self-defense, a plea which the unified League nations would probably oppose strongly...
...Senator Blanche K. Bruce served the full term of 1875-81. When last a Negro's voice was heard in Congress it was pleading chiefly to make lynching a Federal offence. Should Chicago's De Priest reach the House, doubtless he will take up this plea where North Carolina's White left off, although the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People last week announced that a 39-year record had been broken-no lynchings reported anywhere in the U. S. for four months...
Writing in the Harvard Advocate, Mr. Slocum, who, besides having a reputation as an athlete has been held in such high esteem by his New York friends that he has been President of the Harvard Club of New York, makes a plea for the educational and disciplinary value of extra-curricular activities. There is much to be said on his side...