Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This, like a short speech he had made at Sacramento, was of course a final plea for California votes. At Sacramento, with some bitterness, he had said: "There has been increasing untruth and misrepresentation in some of the Press of California, and particularly by the Press of William Randolph Hearst. One would have thought that the President of the United States coming from California was a monster. If Mr. Hearst represented the ideals and the character of California, he would have been President long ago." Toward dusk, in the big house on the Palo Alto hill, blackboards were...
...know you can't prove it. Those men who might be politically minded find themselves confronted with a Punch and Judy show in very bad taste. Naturally they turn away. And with two outstanding Government professors supporting a candidate who is on every side of every fence on a plea of "practical" politics, my sympathies are with the students. It is hard to see without light. J. P. Hall...
...boiling issue, Senator Borah, powerful chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee, fortnight ago gave North American Newspaper Alliance his views on Germany's demand for arms equality with the rest of Europe. Excerpts: "Germany's demand for equality is natural, essentially and fundamentally just. The plea for the sanctity of treaties is sound but it should and must include all parties. The Versailles Treaty has not been observed with reference to Disarmament by the governments which dictated its terms. . . . Technically to observe the terms of a treaty while violating it in spirit and moral purpose...
...American Marconi Co., of which his brother was agent. He had disposed of 1,000 shares to Lloyd George, sold the rest at a profit. Newspapers made a political issue of the "Marconi Scandal," raised a cry of Corruption. Before the House of Commons, Lloyd George made an impassioned plea for vindication. Sir Rufus followed with a long, calm, judicial speech, admitting negligence, denying any connection between stock purchase and contract. The House accepted his apology, cleared him of blame...
...Cumaean Rock, a many-chambered volcanic promontory twelve miles west of Naples. Therein, "hidden far from sight within her sanctuary dark and drear, dwelt the dread Sibyl, whom the Delian seer inspired with soul and wisdom to unfold the things to come"* Complaisant with the Romans' plea the Sibyl would shuffle inscribed leaves, deal them upon her grotto floor, to be construed there by her votaries...