Word: plea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prompted by the Governor, the New York Legislature a fortnight ago passed a resolution urging Congress to liberalize the Volstead law so as to legalize the manufacture and sale of light wines and beer. Democratic leaders in Washington last week advised Mr. Smith to reserve his plea for the 68th Congress rather than present it to the 67th. The Governor agreed...
Speaking for over 45 minutes, Mr. Manning outlined his personal experiences in prison at Seattle, in the Cook County Jail at Chicago, and at Fort Leavenworth, and made a strong plea for the freedom of the men still in prison. In 1917 he said he was organizing the I. W. W. in the lumber camps of Washington, where the living and working conditions were so bad that the luber men joined the organization in great numbers. The work of the I. W. w. was so contrary to the industrial interests of the west that they concocted a list of about...
...McKinlock of Chicago in memory of George A. McKinlock Jr. '16, who was killed in the war; a study of occupations into which Harvard men have gone after graduation; a detailed analysis of the Harvard system of general examinations for graduation and of the tutorial system; and a plea for students to enter college at an earlier age than is now customary, were features of the annual report of President Lowell to the Board of Overseers, made public last night...
...complete proceeds of his lectures to a fund which is being raised "for sending American boys to France, and bringing our students here". A gift ends his tour of America-a gift which strikes a note of sincerity characteristic of the man, and which adds more to his plea for closer relations between the two countries than a hundred lectures could have done. It calls to mind a passage from his first speech in New York: "I am not going to ask you for money, you have too much of it. I want something much more than that, much more...
Describing vividly the massacres and outrages which have occurred since the War in the Near East under Turkish rule, Professor S. R. Harlow '08, of International College, Smyrna, made a strong plea for American aid in the problems of Asia Minor. About 150 members of the University were present at the speech, which was delivered at Phillips Brooks House under the auspices of the Graduate School Society...