Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-hour speech, the Prosecutor, Major Harold Shapcott, outlined the Government's case. Because Britain is not at war Lieut. Baillie-Stewart's life was not at stake, but there were ten charges against him. with a maximum penalty of 140 years in jail. On the plea that he was studying for staff college examinations, he had borrowed from the Aldershot Military Library the specifications and photographs of an experimental tank and a new automatic rifle for infantry, also notes on the organization of tank and armored car units. Without special permission he had visited Berlin on leave...
...Committee asked and was granted a trial on the one untried indictment. District Attorney Matthew Brady withdrew from the case because he said he did not have sufficient evidence to convict, did not believe Mooney guilty. If he wins his trial, Mooney will have basis for a new pardon plea...
...Missouri's Governor Parks signed a beer bill under which the great St. Louis breweries could promptly open. ¶The malt syrup industry started a drive to hold home-brewers in line on the plea that their domestic product was cheaper and stronger than the commercial article. ¶From Florida Col. Jacob Ruppert, president of the U. S. Brewers' Association, whose Manhattan plant is set to turn out 2,000,000 bbl. per year, announced: "We'll find the old saloon completely out of the picture. We'll find prototypes of the German beer garden springing...
...Christianity is "an amazing muddle, which has held out only because the views of Jesus were above the heads of all but the best minds." Suspecting that the masses are ready to accept the doctrine of Truth, the author feels that he is timely in getting out this plea for a realignment of religious thinking. He exhorts us to accept the religion of Christ as he taught it and exemplified it in his life. Shaw has come to the conclusion that a large number of people are now intelligent enough to understand that which only the "best minds" had grasped...
...presidential study 85-year-old Paul von Hindenburg disdainfully refuses 43-year-old Adolf Hitler's plea that he, as leader of the Nazi Party (largest in the Reichstag) be made Chancellor with "precisely the powers" of Benito Mussolini (TIME, Aug. 22). Less than six months after this rebuff, the Goddess of the Eternal Court of History-as Orator Hitler so fetchingly calls her-makes him Chancellor of the Reich by assent of Old Paul von Hindenburg (TIME...