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Word: plea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...themselves. They have evidently decided that whatever they say might incriminate them. Doheny stated that all the charges made against him were false. He awaited only the opportunity to clear himself. When the time came, he never made the least attempt to appear before the court. This is no plea for honest men. When Sinclair and Fall were indicted, Blackmer, Oneill and Osler, all implicated, slipped off to Europe, Why is silence the only answer to the charges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAW PROFESSOR FLAYS U. S. OIL PROSECUTION | 12/4/1926 | See Source »

...case at least, nothing could be further from the truth. Humanization and very definite suggestions for its introduction were the two things which I specifically stressed. "My article was, in its small way, simply and solely a plea for just such an academic Renaissance. Because Liberty omitted all my suggestions for reform, the whole character and tone of my article was distorted. Originally, it was not a condemnation of all college teachers who have labored and gained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, but an attack on the existing standards which I believed, and still believe, to be detrimental...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/26/1926 | See Source »

...after the announcement of Secretary Mellon's proposal, the White House Spokesman issued a plea for non-partisan consideration of tax relief, and said that, after consideration, he was inclined to be in favor of the Mellon plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Surplus-Removal | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...subject of prohibition to the contrary notwithstanding. President C. D. Gray of Bates spoke on this subject of freedom in Boston and called attention to the fact that in spite of the prevailing belief there were often cases of suppression and government interference. His talk was a plea for greater freedom for all to the end that a true distinction between right and wrong could be easily made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIS FREEDOM | 11/18/1926 | See Source »

...This plea from a man in the position of President Gray is a healthy sign in the upward growth of the country. It will not destroy all the bonds imposed by censorship, but it does show that intelligent thought and influence are being directed in the right channels toward enlightening the people, for after all, there can be no dark and dangerous sides to any questions for a truly enlightened populace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIS FREEDOM | 11/18/1926 | See Source »

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