Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This statement was made in an interview yesterday by Vincent Sheean, author and foreign correspondent, in a plea for more intelligent study of world affairs. Students should prepare themselves for the crises in Europe and Asia by following the trends; and the colleges should help them by correlating the teaching of history more closely with contemporary happenings, Sheean said...
...stand denying that he knew either Maude Ault or Robert Alt, that he had ever seen Max Orendorff. At the end of the first day of trial, it appeared that no mortal man had ever seen Max Orendorff. Robert Alt and his mother, weeping on his arm, changed their plea to guilty and were sentenced to ten years in prison, fined $3,000 each...
...general the authors' interests are in water-sports, dancing, and "that grand outdoor exercise, riding in a car," as one girl phrased it. All letters ended with a plea to "write soon," and one said, "After all, what's wrong with a little getting acquainted...
...plea of the three professors was that Freshmen should not concentrate exclusively on the humanities without any attention to science...
Last December, a car driven by scholarly, Nazi-hating William Edward Dodd, former U. S. Ambassador to Germany, hit four-year-old Negro Glois Grimes near Hanover Courthouse, Va. Dr. Dodd, arrested on a hit-&-run charge, pleaded not guilty. On trial last week, he changed his plea, threw himself on the mercy of the court. His daughter, Martha Dodd Stern, testified that he had declined mentally and physically since the death of his wife last spring. His lawyer said that he had already paid over $1,100 in hospital and doctors' bills to Glois Grimes's parents...