Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their rehabilitation "we are dealing with a long procession of men and women who at present are babes in arms; who, as the revolving years come on, are quite certain, under the deadly percentages which the criminologists are beginning to establish ... to lead lives of crime." Mr. Baker's plea was for closer study of criminal psychopathy...
...word speech to the Grand National Assembly in Angora, capital of the nation. Over a period of six days, actually speaking for 36 hours, 80 minutes, the great Ghazi traced the history of the Nationalist, movement through the founding of the republic, ending on an impassioned patriotic plea to Turkish youth...
...strange sight. Leaning on the arm of Viscount Curzon-was Captain Ian Fraser, a blinded young war veteran. Slowly the two moved through the 3,500 assembled Conservative delegatives to the rostrum. Then, standing sightless, Captain Fraser made a two minute speech in which he put forward a stirring plea for faith in young British womanhood...
...reticence had not been rewarded. In June he had protested against the treatment he was getting in the jail, and an investigating board had found his complaints unfounded. Last week he asked Governor Ed. Jackson for a 90-day parole so that he could personally conduct his plea to the State Supreme Court for a retrial of the Oberholtzer case. Governor Jackson refused his request...
...students at the 49th commencement of Smith College at Northampton, Mass. Rector Henry Lewis of St. Andrew's Church, Ann Arbor, Mich, (site of the University of Michigan) made the other before the Protestant Episcopal Church Congress at San Francisco a fortnight ago. Each man made earnest plea for the revaluing of moral (ethical) standards, and in each case newspapers "played up" their comments on sex standards...