Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last five weeks of the campaign after the oil disclosures which, it was felt, had hurt McAdoo. The Senator himself made a speech some months ago before the Georgia legislature, and Senator Heflin, his colleague from Alabama, went there at the end of the campaign to make a plea in his behalf...
...peeresses to the Lords. The case was referred to the Privileges Committee of the Commons. She claimed a seat on the Sex Disqualification Act of 1919, which provides that a person shall not be disqualified by sex from the exercise of any public function. The Committee, rejecting the plea, said that a seat in the Lords was an "honor" and not a "public function." Briant's bill may lead to the establishment of "The House of Lords and Ladies...
...found guilty of trading against the account of a customer. He must undergo a prison sentence of from three months to three years. Ruskay has appealed the case, however, so that even this slight punishment has a very theoretical aspect. In spite of the ex-bucketshop keeper's plea that he was penniless, he presented what has been termed a "brisk apearance" in court and seemed to be able to command the services of expensive legal counsel...
...time this year that Anglo-French correspondence has been published (TIME, Feb. 11). On the present occasion the letters were more specific and not less frank. Premier Macdonald stated that France's maintenance of large military and aerial forces is not understood in Britain; he also made a plea for Anglo-French co-öperation to prepare Europe so that the U. S. can be induced to help in general reconstruction on that continent. Premier Poincaré's reply contained a justification of France's policy. He made a plea for peace and said that Anglo-French...
...abandonment of the so-called Pole-flight plans (TiME, Feb. 18). Its disappointment may be still greater if the British get the chance of which the Americans were deprived. Commander F. M. Boothby, British airship expert, is trying to borrow the R36 from the Air Ministry on the plea that he can fly from England to the Pole, in 96 hours there and back, at an expenditure of only $25,000. The Labor Air Minister is cold to his plans. "Airships are for military purposes, not for stunts...