Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months of 1935 had resulted in an all-time record of 28,760 deaths. ¶ In Washington, the motoring records of Sons Franklin Jr. and John Roosevelt officially became a national political issue when the Republican National Committee suggested that the boys take to heart their father's plea for safe motoring, addressed last month to the American Automobile Association convention in Chicago. ¶ In Warm Springs, President Roosevelt once again expressed grave concern over U. S. motor fatalities, announced that Texas' Representative James P. Buchanan had suggested to him passage of a Federal law forbidding interstate transportation...
...agitators. Holding that "terrorism" in India is now devoted to the "overthrow of any non-Communist government . . . by multiplication of single murders, by mass killings," she lists a number of atrocities, suggests that Gandhi's essential purpose is the extermination of the Muslim population, ends with a fervent plea that Mohammedans may not be provoked to attack the British as a result of Hindu intrigues...
...President's emissary gloomed paternally about railroads, took a few digs at their "banker management," then seconded his chief's plea for bigger & better lending. "Since real estate is the basis of all wealth and industry the most essential factor in employment," pleaded Mr. Jones, "these should have, to a reasonable and safe extent, favored treatment by banks in making loans." The bankers had heard that tune before from Jesse Jones, and when he finished his address, the RF Chairman grinned, drawling...
...Frenchman her 14 months in prison awaiting trial have seemed unduly severe. She was let out on bail at last (TIME, May 13) but sympathy still enshrouds her. On the advice of Maitre de Moro-Giafferi last week Arlette Stavisky pulled out all the organ stops in a plea for PITY which went to the heart of France. "To be able to go away and forget all this by migrating with my children to America!" she cried. "To bring up my children to love me and respect the memory of their father! That is all I ask. "They are innocent...
...plea for academic freedom based on the folly of attempts to restrict the liberty of the faculty in the past concluded Morison's address, entitled "Three Centuries of Harvard." He spoke at a meeting commemorating the 299th anniversary of the University's founding and the 328th anniversary of John Harvard's birth...