Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading horsemen of the U. S., he was President of the Association of American Horse Shows, the Hackney Horse Society and innumerable other equine organizations. During the War he issued a public plea for more horse-breeding which won general support from men of wealth throughout...
...Cabinet committee, headed by Lord Birkenhead and created to consider the Admiralty's plea for six new cruisers, approved the construction of four...
...Socialists put in a determined plea for the pet project of capital levy. After considerable discussion a Socialist amendment supporting the levy was defeated 340 to 210. A vote was then taken on M. Caillaux's bill as a whole and was passed 330 to 40 votes, the Socialists abstaining...
...football is certainly not an amateur in the general meaning of the word. But complaint on the score of injuries has less justification. Football, to be sure, is more strenuous than, say squash. But it is not so dangerous as lacrosse. Yet there has been no very very wide plea to abolish lacrosse...
That Memorial Hall be renovated to become the chapel memorial for the men of the University who were killed in the world war, is the plea of H. M. Wheeler '06 in a recent letter to President Lowell. Mr. Wheeler, a manufacturer of Wake-field, Massachusetts, has brought forward the suggestion as being a solution to the problem of the new war memorial which is being considered by the members of the corporation...