Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free press argument is a very noble excuse for paying your office boys $13.50 a week instead of the blanket code's $15." Likewise the Milwaukee Journal signed, hired 57 additional employes, increased its yearly payroll by $100,000, roundly flayed the A. N. P. A. for its "plea for special privilege." A cursory survey by Editor & Publisher tradepaper found about 50 signers, estimated hundreds more...
This cablegram Chief U. S. Delegate Hull backed with a final plea to the Conference for lower tariffs-despite reports in London papers that the U. S. Administration would shortly raise several schedules. As chairman of the Conference Monetary Commission-which deadlocked on stabilization and wrecked the Conference (TIME, June 26 et seq.)- Vice-Chief U. S. Delegate James M. Cox praised the Conference's 500 experts, remarking that "100 of them have been working together at various conferences for ten years." In his final speech Mr. Cox, unable to praise his Monetary Commission, praised the Bank for Interna...
...free the thousands of Gandhite prisoners, some of whom have languished in Anglo-Indian jails for as much as two years. Seemingly the Mahatma felt his leadership challenged. Squatting down in the centre of the committee, he proceeded to mesmerize all present with a two-hour mystic plea that the All-India National Congress Party through its committee should once more abdicate and place all power of decision in the Mahatma's hands. Before he began to speak such action seemed impossible. The committee knew that Viceroy Willingdon, a sahib of iron will, has refused to treat with either...
...from him last March. At that time securities which cost the company $73,800,000 were worth $19,900,000. Since then, said President Jamison last week, the stockmarket had been good to him. Globe & Rutgers' assets now exceeded liabilities by $10,000,000. The court pondered his plea. Wall Street wondered if Globe & Rutgers' rise did not bear out one of its pet theories on the New Deal market: ''Buy the worst stocks and make the most money." ¶ In Ohio last week eager purchasers were rushing out to the threshing floors, offering farmers...
...credit policy, innumerable prohibitions and restrictions strangling mutually profitable trade transactions, retaliation and countless other war-breeding trade practices and methods." The steering committee, cold to this proposal, began to discuss adjourning the Conference on July 26 "for at least two months" but were halted by a fresh emotional plea from Mr. Hull. "I do not see," cried he to correspondents, "how the Conference statesmen can go home to their starving people and admit they have failed to achieve anything...