Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hear cases involving the constitutionality of an act of Congress. Serious, bespectacled Judge Florence Allen of the Circuit Court of Appeals came first.* Stocky, white-haired District Judge John J. Gore and earnest District Judge John D. Martin followed. Since November 15 they had been hearing the plea of 18 Southern utility companies that the Tennessee Valley Authority be enjoined from the sale of electric power and the TVA Act be declared unconstitutional...
...Next plea came from cattlemen forced because of 1936 drought to sell their beef at any price. The July slaughter was 25% over the previous year and many a rancher faced ruin. But the chains, with the aid of numerous packers, put on sales pressure. Chain-store beef sales jumped 34% in August over August 1935; the price of choice steers rose from $8.58 in June to $10 in September; cattlemen received more August income than the previous five-year average; the Government had to buy only 5,000 head to hold up the market instead...
James Laughlin is not alone in his quest for the purging of our language. At the end of his selection of the last year's best books, Clifton Fadiman made a plea to young authors that they write with more care towards the use of words. Wilson Follett complained that the definition of a sentence as "a complete thought expressed in words" had become obsolete. The economist, Stuart Chase, in a recent provocative article, urged that the way to make language a better vehicle for ideas was to pursue the science of semantics, which teaches that the two main sins...
...Monday by George E. Leslie, male nurse at the trial of the contest of the former Harvard graduate's will at the Suffolk probate court. Leslie testified further, "Adams was accustomed to call up his friends during the early morning hours and summon them to his apartment on the plea that he was dying, although he wasn't and he knew he wasn...
...plea for suitable winter footwear was shunted to Brooks House, where Raymond Dennett '36, 2G, graduate secretary, said yesterday, "We'll send him a pair of shoes as soon as we find out what size he wears...