Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FREE SPEECH PLEA Syracuse's Flint...
Died. Warren Wesley Finney, 62, Emporia, Kans. banker, convicted embezzler, father of Bond Forger Ronald Finney (TIME, Aug. 21, 1933, et seq.); by his own hand (pistol); in Emporia. When peace officers came to his summer cabin last week to take him to the penitentiary, Mrs. Finney's plea for "one more hour" was granted. The officers returned to find Warren Finney sprawled on the floor, a bullet hole through both temples, a mirror propped before...
With 30 signatures of date on the petition for a course in meteorology and climatology next year, students backing the move hope to obtain enough additional signatures by tomorrow to force the success of the plea when it is presented to University Hall next week. For three years the course has been listed as "to be omitted next year." Members of the Class of 1936 wanting the course on next year's curriculum, hope to overcome the objection of the University that three are insufficient applicants to warrant a course...
Please do not consider this to be in any way a consideration of the handling of the Senior Elections. It is only a plea to have Harvard avoid pre-election mud-slinging. The students who vote know for whom they are voting; let them express their opinions in the ballots; don't let us have students rise who are anxious to guide us along the right path in matters about which we all have our own opinions. John P. Scheu...
There was no anti-New Deal plank in Governor Talmadge's platform. His plea for reelection was based on the claim that he had fulfilled every pledge made in his 1932 campaign, and on his promise that if reelected, he would pay the State out of debt and further reduce taxes...