Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sidelines. Let the characteristic American frankness get caught with its hand in the jam and invite upon itself the food of criticism and abuse which the Japanese military delight in. Let America get into difficulties and let the European good children get the cake. In short my plea is: America watch...
...would have been deceptive to report $48,000 spent in Virginia by a local organization. When Attorney McNeill pictured him as a man of unshakable courage the Bishop smiled approvingly. His excited attorney cried, "Oh Liberty and Justice, what crimes are often done in thy name!" An equally impassioned plea was made for the Bishop's codefendant. Her lawyer declared: "This little woman comes up from Virginia charged with this crime. She was the daughter of a Methodist minister and was the support of her widowed mother for many years. . . . She accepted the treasuryship of this committee for which...
Typical of the window dressing methods which have been brought to such a high degree of perfection by the wily Schacht in convincing Germany's creditors of here incipient bankruptcy, is the old reliable plea of a dearth of god wherewith to pay off the adverse balance of trade which is claimed as the root of her financial troubles. Now, no one can deny that Germany, so far as her export situation is concerned, is really in a bad way; but this is the ostensible reason, loud-pedalled mainly for foreign consumption, for her lack of the yellow metal...
...here." Something must be done about this. Have we no Kohler among our Alumni? Then let a bowl, a basin, be passed about through all House Dining Rooms and let sweet charity flow into it that we may be the godlier. For if results are not forthcoming from this plea for succor we threaten--and it is no idle threat--to descend on masse on Fair Harvard and scourge the place with measles; and we have measles to spare. Woe therefore to the stiff-necked and unmerciful! We shall make Harvard the abomination of desolation, laid low with measles. Look...
Federal Attorney-General Cummings has set up a plaintive plea for teeth with which to fight crime, and he has shown that the armed forces of crime are more numerous than those of the army and the navy. Massachusetts has offered the first practical proposal for giving teeth to the law and the defeat of this bill will represent one more in the long chain of victories the politicians have scored over the people...