Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rally at Norristown, Pa. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde, who said he had not milked a cow for 20 years, lost a milking contest in Shenandoah, Iowa to Earl May, operator of radio station KFNF, owned by Henry ("Himself") Field, Republican nominee for Senator. The loser's plea: "The trick is to get a lot of foam in the milk so the pop bottle will fill up quickly." Norman B. Collins, president of Security Bank and Second Security Bank of Chicago, and his wife were kidnapped in Wilmette (Chicago suburb) by five men in a black sedan...
...Japan's representative, Dr. Haruichi Nagaoka, who drew whispers of "ye-ah?" and derisive laughter several times during his plea that "floods, mud and storms at sea" have so delayed transmission of the Lytton Report on Japan's occupation of Manchuria that release and discussion of the Report by the Council must be long delayed. League presses were at that very moment printing the report for, as China's Dr. W. W. Yen scathingly observed, there happen to be such things as telegraphs, cables and radio...
Harvard's Professor Manley Ottmer Hudson, international law authority, was arrested in Connecticut for driving on the left side of the road. His plea: he had just returned from-left-side-driving England. He was released...
...examined by the defense; 2) the Mayor's private life was not ground for removal unless moral turpitude were disclosed; 3) the Mayor's first-term activities had been passed on by the people and were therefore beyond the Governor's scrutiny. Though he lost his plea. Mayor Walker's lawyer hailed this decision as "a great victory" for his client. Later it was to prove the springboard by which the Mayor leaped out of office...
From the Supreme Court, Lawyer John J. Glynn, nephew of Alfred Emanuel Smith, got an order requiring the Governor to show cause why he should not be restrained from ousting the Mayor. The Mayor's plea was based on his charge that the Governor was about to deprive him of "property" (his job) without "due process of law" (calling witnesses to accuse him and be cross-examined). The Governor's constitutional power of removal was also questioned in this suit, as it was in the one brought fortnight ago by a Bronx Democrat to test the "home-rule" amendment...