Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prohibition. The conference was opened by N. E. A.'s President Uel Walter Lamkin. His message and plea: there should be no Federal dictation in educational matters. Thus, curtly, was dismissed the suggestion that all U. S. educators use Prohibition propaganda in their schools and text books (see p. 10). That Federal project had given N. E. A. members something new to think about. For years the N. E. A. has advocated the establishment of a U. S. Department of Education with a representative in the Cabinet. How much more likely, wondered observers, would the Government be to "dictate...
...England, gratification at this benefit was tempered by disappointment at the bill's failure to shift leather shoes from the free to the dutiable list. The House committee was pressed by the farmers for a duty on hides, which was rejected and with it New England's plea for a shoe duty. Committeemen felt they could not "defend" such an increase on the House floor...
...Curry, at the head of Tammany Hall (TIME, May 6). Only one issue has really stirred the sluggish depths of New York's electorate-the price it must pay for a subway ride. Mayor Walker won that issue when the U. S. Supreme Court rejected a 7? fare plea, upheld the nickel (TiME, April 15). He has the support of the Hearst papers (American, Evening Journal). Criticism of him as a flibberty "do-nothing" by other, more respected Manhattan journals carries small political weight. The arch-Democratic New York World expressed a preference for Mayor Walker over "some wholly...
Faced with the necessity of establishing sufficient reasons for the abolishing of capital punishment, Harvard concentrated on the plea that the severe penalty does not justify itself by preventing homicide. J. H. Swigert '30, introducing his case, made a strong historical appeal which branded the death penalty a survival of the primeval instinct of revenge and accordingly reprehensible. It is "inhuman and cruel," was his premise; and it "closes the door of justice in case of possible error...
...Plea. I beg your tolerance, your aid and cooperation. I ask the help of Almighty God in this service to my country to which you have called...