Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston swore that Mr. Sacco had been in his presence at that time. However, the police who arrested them swore that they had drawn guns. This was interpreted as "evidence of guilt." The jury was asked to do its duty as "did our boys in France"-an effective plea, considering the fact that Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti were pacifists as well as radicals. 1921-1927. Motions for a new trial were repeatedly turned down, while radicals flung bombs at many a U. S. embassy, while liberals such as Anatole France, Romain Rolland, Henri Barbusse, Fritz Kreisler, Albert Einstein protested against...
Before the Supreme Court of Greece of this year, Attorney Paradopulos brought suit; he demanded "that Socrates' innocence be re-established." The modern court of Athens refused to consider the plea, on the ground that legal action would be empty and superfluous. World opinion, they decided, had completely vindicated the liberal Socrates...
...master dinner' of Yale alumni in Manhattan at the official opening of Yale's latest $20,000,000 campaign, I am to address by radio all Yale alumni in the U. S. and also Europe. A 32.79-metre wave, it is expected, will make my plea for money heard by Yale men, idle and diligent alike, in London, Paris, Berlin, Venice, Cairo...
...CASE OF SACCO AND VANZETTI, Professor Frankfurter summarizes the history, now seven years long, of a celebrated criminal proceeding which has assumed some of the aspects of an American Dreyfus case. His book may be taken as a special plea to justify the point of view of those who have interested themselves in the cause of the defendants; but it is composed with fairness, and, if read in the same spirit, should do much to dispel misunderstandings which have befogged and embittered the controversy from the beginning. After reading what he has written, one must at least be forced...
Excessively sensational was a report, last week, from Moscow that the local French Ambassador, M. Jean Herbette, has openly professed Bolshevism, substituted a seal of his own design for the French seal with which he should stamp his documents, and finally evaded several times on the plea of ill health and inability to travel intimations from Foreign Minister Briand that he must return to Paris...