Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Despite the animadversions against the middle class, it would not be strictly accurate to classify this issue of "The Harvard Critic" as proletarian polemical literature, since a Hindu Communist who pens a diatribe against Gandhi, described as a bourgeois demagogue, is matched by an English Liberal who enters a plea for enlightened, that is to say, non-revolutionary socialism. On the whole, this is a very moderately subversive publication. It should not cause great agitation among the conscript fathers. Yet it has accomplished the objects of its editors, namely, to provide a channel through which students could express themselves...
...several hundred bonuseers, destitute farmers, city jobless and professional relief seekers. Down the steps to greet them marched big bluff Floyd Bjerstjerne Olson, only Farmer-Labor Governor in the land. The State Senate, preponderantly conservative, was still mulling over the Olson relief program. The theme of the marchers' plea was: "Tax the rich to feed the poor...
Chicago, heedless to Col. Ruppert's national plea, got its beer cold and at the zero hour. While sirens, pistols and cowbells sounded, State Street establishments dispensed to rows four deep. Louis Schneider, winner of the Indianapolis Memorial Day auto race in 1931, piloted a beer truck bound out of town. The Illinois Legislature having failed to agree on a beer dispensary bill, Acting Mayor Frank Corr announced that no city licenses would be levied, that Chicago would be on "beer probation...
...death at Scottsboro, county seat, ten days later. The ninth, aged 13, was turned over to a juvenile court, as was subsequently one of the condemned, aged 14. Last November the U. S. Supreme Court overruled (7-to-2) the Alabama Supreme Court which had denied the defendants' plea for retrial. A new trial, with venue changed not to urban Birmingham as the defense requested, but "for reasons of economy" to Decatur in neighboring, rural Morgan County, began last week...
...juries in Alabama. After two days of bickering, Judge James E. Horton, a Lincolnesque figure in the Circuit Court for 25 years, suddenly ruled: "The Court has decided not to hear further testimony on this question." Attorney Knight looked surprised. Counsel Leibowitz, believing himself armed with cause for another plea to the Supreme Court, looked pleased...