Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Repercussion. Last week's revelations vexed English Roman Catholics. Cried Most Reverend Richard Downey, Archbishop of Liverpool: "It is difficult to see what moral justification there can be for reading a Protestant service over the remains of these Roman Catholic princes, even though it were done on the plea of legal continuity of the present Anglican Church with the pre-Reformation Church of Britain...
...Japanese Bruti who slew Premier Ki Inukai for his "excessive pacifism" (TIME, May 23, 1932) stood in the dock before the Naval Court Martial at Yokosuka naval base last week while their Japanese attorney, in his final defense plea, quoted adroitly from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar...
This somehow reminds us to pass on the earnest plea of the Freshmen denizens of Stoughton to the man who stole the name-cards from every door to help him make up a mailing list. The Freshmen want their cards back...
...famed underground passage leading to the house of the Speaker, who was then Göring himself? Could he make plausible the Nazi charge that Communists set a fire which provided Chancellor Hitler with the opportunity to rush straight to President von Hindenburg, obtain dictatorial powers on the plea of national emergency and proceed to suppress first the Communist Party and later all others except his own? In Berlin last week General Göring, famed for his dashing appearances at Nazi rallies in swank uniforms created by himself, chose to appear before the Supreme Court in the unadorned brown...
...Harvard's ex-president, and pleaded for a stay of the extradition order. Judge Lowell, an aging, flashily-dressed eccentric who was rebuked by the Supreme Court last May for telling a jury that a witness must have been lying because he nervously wiped his hands, granted their plea. His legal reasoning was that since Virginia does not permit Negroes to serve on juries, any conviction of George Crawford would be voided by the Supreme Court as contrary to the 14th amendment.* "The only persons who would get any good out of it would be the lawyers," he declared...