Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Eugene G. Grace of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation has an answer to Judge Gary's plea for letting down the immigration bars. He announced that he had 1,000 Mexican laborers at work in his plants, that they were efficient and reliable, and that since there was no restriction on Mexican immigration, the steel industry could replenish its labor shortage with Mexican labor without seriously disturbing economic and labor conditions in the steel towns. It is expected that many employers of common labor will take advantage of the fact that Mexican labor has no legal quota limit...
...deceased, with the Workers' Party as its sole heir and beneficiary), Ruthenberg declared that the Communist plans for seizing the Governmental power in the United States " includes the use of armed force." The prosecution is making much of this point, since W. Z. Foster evaded conviction on the plea that he did not advocate force. Ruthenberg's written admission that he does propose bullets instead of ballots to realize the " social revolution" is held to incriminate him beyond escape...
...Walker, a prominent politician, advocate of the League of Nations and practicing attorney, then addressed the gathering. Stressing the idea that the establishment of international law obtained by international legislation was the greatest social service now possible, Mr. Walker gave an impressive plea for the establishment of a Court of International Justice...
...Medical experts should be permitted by law to examine the bodies of all persons who die of peculiar or unusual diseases." This plea was made by Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, who is quoted as saying: "The United States should have a law similar to the one in Austria which gives this power to experts of that country who are studying how to combat disease. Our hands will remain tied until we are allowed the same liberty." It was through the performing of innumerable autopsies that Pasteur came to discover his treatment for rabies...
NACHA REGTJLES?Manuel Galvez ?Dutton ($3.00). This South American novel which won the Buenos Aires Prize for Letters in 1920 is not for light entertainment or easy reading. It is a thoughtful and sincere plea for the investigation and improvement of the so-called lower world in a great South American city. Its moral earnestness and stern purpose keep it from the obvious morbidness and distasteful pictures its plot inevitably suggests. Dr. Monsalvat, the hero, tries to rescue Nacha Regules from her cabaret life; and from the study of her position is led to begin a campaign...