Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Austen's plea against Dawn was shortly described as "a lullaby to please the Germans" and roundly flayed by peppery Brigadier-General John Hartman Morgan who served as Vice-Chairman of the Lord Bryce Commission which, during the War, investigated and exaggerated "German atrocities." Flinging the defunct Commission's hat once more into the ring, General Morgan rehearsed the "judicial murder" of Edith Cavell and seemed to think it could not receive too much film publicity...
...trial of Father William J. Burns, the great detective, and Son W. Sherman Burns, ignorance of the son's actions was the father's plea. Their detectives had been hired by Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair to shadow the jury chosen to try Sinclair for criminal conspiracy with Albert Bacon Fall, Harding Cabinet man. Father Burns said he knew nothing about it. When the Washington Herald (Hearst) discovered, and the Department of Justice announced, the shady work afoot (TIME, Nov. 14), it was news to Father Burns-said Father Burns...
...Trial. Governor Jackson opened the trial last week with a plea of not guilty. Then followed the troublesome task of selecting the jurors. Prosecutor Remy wanted to make sure no Klansman was chosen. The defense objected to barbers, because barbers have a grievance against Governor Jackson for pocket vetoing a barbers' license bill. Specimen testimonies of rejected jurors...
...letter sent out yesterday to all the alumnae of Smith College by the officers of the Alumnae Association, is a plea for support that reveals clearly the distressing position in which that college finds itself as a result of the notoriety that attended the disappearance of Miss Frances Smith. Embraced by rumor and the zealous press, that institution has been unusually subject to the stupidities that characterize such attentions. "Alumnae want to know," the letter states, "Whether it is true that there has been a 'reign of terror' on the campus and whether, as has been said, twenty-six other...
...rather implies that if some-how a different sort of contact were established between students and tutors, and if divisional were abolished that a new vigor and a new enthusiasm would spring up among the great legion of concentrators in English. In many respects it is the now familiar plea for inspirational contact and a chance to become educated by independent browsing...