Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crimes a basis for preventing any more like them in Wall Street This morning he had said good-by to his wife and two daughters, all of whom have indicated that they will go to work. Standing silently in court he had just listened to a long, florid plea for mercy by his lawyer, Charles Tuttle. Excerpt...
...Government considers that Japan today is at war-for Japan has not declared war on any country-and therefore whether or not the National Mobilization Bill would be operative as soon as passed. Premier Prince Konoye, after keeping away from as many sessions as he could on the plea that he was "sick," was finally haggled into saying that the National Mobilization Bill, even if passed, would not immediately become effective, would be administered by a commission on which would sit, promised the Premier, some members of the Seiyukai and the Minseito...
...suspension for three years of his floor partners, Edwin D. Morgan Jr. and Henry D. Mygatt, because Exchange custom demands such a penalty even though they were exonerated of any knowledge of the criminal acts; 3) filing of bankruptcy petitions by Partners Mygatt and F. Kingsley Rodewald; 4) a plea of guilty by Richard Whitney to a second indictment for grand larceny, this one brought by New York Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. for pledging $109,000 worth of New York Yacht Club securities for his own loans; 5) revelation by Richard Whitney that his brother, Morgan-partner George...
Because talk was blossoming in reform circles of need for a new legislative purge of Wall Street as a result of the Whitney scandal, Assistant Attorney General Ambrose V. McCall took occasion as Richard Whitney finished his guilty plea to declare: "On the contrary, the Whitney case is the result of regulation that is stopping a practice that was apparently widespread in pledging customers' securities...
Most urgent plea to arise from the Little Businessmen's Conference in Washington last month was for easier credit. Lately the Senate Banking & Currency Committee has been studying ways of providing it. Last week, while a crowd of small businessmen were reiterating their need before the committee, two Government officials appeared, one with the first sound analysis of the problem, the other with a bold remedy...