Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last night's "Transcript" contained an editorial commending in no uncertain terms the virile, even Spartanesque plea of the "Chicago Tribune" that the next Army-Navy game be played in that city. "Chicago is becoming a center of organized pacifism . . . which works against the military training camps, undermines military training in these schools and colleges: it has a sentimental disregard for the real causes of war, but it is effective." Thus speaks the old army spirit in the middle west. And the "Transcript" echoes the following...
...short letter Monday from a disgruntled graduate raised the question whether a clergyman without experience in education was the logical choice for the president of a great metropolitan university. Bishop Anderson's answering plea for a sympathetic trial of the president-elect was criticised Wednesday by a prominent Bostonian, Charles K. Bolton of the Athenaeum, as leaving the main issue untouched. He suggested that the Boston public, more than once appealed to for financial support may well object to an unbroken line of Methodist clergymen at the head of such an institution, and asked whether a man's usefulness...
...College of the City of New York military training is obligatory. Last week the students sent a respectful plea to the Faculty asking to have soldiering removed from the curriculum or at least made an elective. This plea the Faculty decisively rejected. President Sidney E. Mezes sat down and wrote an announcement of his colleagues' decision. One Felix S. Cohen, editor of the undergraduate paper, The Campus, threw the President's announcement into the wastebasket and refused even to mention in his publication the result of the Faculty vote...
They concluded with the suggestion that, if the Governess failed to issue such a call before Dec. 10, they would construe her failure to act as a refusal of their plea to oust the tick...
When Chancellor Luther entered to present the Government plea for the Locarno Treaties, he was greeted by the Communists with "stentorian grunts" and cries of "Here comes the representative of international capital!" In an effort to calm those around him, Foreign Minister Stresemann sat through his colleague's speech with grimly folded arms. But it was only...