Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Stock Exchange one afternoon last week a group of men stepped forth upon the rostrum high over the paper-littered floor. One member of the group was Exchange President Charles Richard Gay, another Alfred Emanuel Smith, who was there to make a plea for New York's United Hospital Fund. Clerks were still yelling, messengers scurrying, tickers clacking. When Mr. Smith was introduced to the brokers even the sound-amplifying system could scarcely be heard above...
...postpone quotation broadcasts. From coast to coast evening papers, whose Wall Street editions must wait for closing prices and bid & ask quotations, were held up while financial editors futilely tore their hair. Net result of the Stock Exchange's generous attention to Al Smith's warm-hearted plea was a renewed blast of criticism from the outraged Press, which was additionally irked because the Exchange had refused to admit photographers to snap Al Smith on the rostrum...
...Germany, but unwilling to forgive him for having published in 1929-three years before Adolf Hitler came to power-an article accusing the German Army of spending too much money, the Nazis in 1933 jugged Carl von Ossietzky in a prison camp. Last week Berlin correspondents put up the plea that since Herr von Ossietzky had just been awarded the $40,000 Nobel Peace Prize (TIME, Nov. 30), perhaps, as a great favor, the Ministry for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment would authorize them to interview the Prizeman in a sanatorium to which the Government had hastily transferred him from the prison...
...German lawyer successfully defended Salengro with the following amazing plea to the German court martial: "Meine Herren, you must not sentence this Frenchman to death, for, France is a gallant country, and had a German prisoner in France committed the offense with which Salengro is charged we would consider it our duty to bow deeply before...
...York's Solicitor General Henry Epstein replied for the State with a spirited plea for social justice. Hotly he cited the case of Bethlehem Steel Co., which, he charged, brought 7,500 workers to Lackawanna, N. Y., discharged 6,000 of them during Depression, even tried to evict them from company houses so that it could tear down the worthless buildings and thus lower its tax bill...