Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entertaining but seriously intended, carefully but (at times) garrulously written. In real life people never talk so wordily to their point; implicit in Author Burt's novels is the conviction that talk is important. A satire on U. S. cultural vices, Entertaining the Islanders is also an earnest plea-which Burt-readers have heard before but will willingly hear again-for a more refined, intelligent, cultured, splendid, "gently bred...
Robert Billyer '14, assistant professor of English, speaks his mind boldly and passionately, in the fight for education as against the empty red-tape of degrees and requirements in the new Forum. Finding real education forgotten in an ordered chaos of scholarship he makes a plea for an ideal university which appears to combine the freedom of the Society of Fellows with the organization of a Rollins College. It will undoubtedly remain an idle tutor's dream, but the reforms which might be still injected into the records office and board-rooms of University Hall, can be read between...
...challenge to Alma Jacobsen's plea for protection covering those persons seeking domestic employment. So two-sided is every question that I can't but wonder if she may not be equally culpable in her report against the employer's lack of consideration! Perhaps it has been my good fortune to engage the unusual in the domestic staff since, but with a single exception, I've never had one that I for some reason or other was forced to give up, who did not want to return and with always her very gratifying "I shall never...
...plea for inflation presented...
...Department of Agriculture to have U.S. imports of Cuban sugar reduced by a drastic quota to 1,700,000 short tons per annum-less than Cuba has exported to the U.S. in any year during the past generation. Cubans hoped that President Roosevelt would support their plea for a quota of not less than 2,200,000 short tons. Ever since the U.S. helped Cuba win independence from Spain, Cuban sugar has enjoyed a U.S. tariff preference of 20%. Cubans hoped that President Roosevelt would use his executive power to raise this preferential to 50%. In Washington the President, careful...