Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the Conference got around to electing the chairman of its Committee on Currency last week, it chose Canadian Minister of Trade & Commerce Henry Herbert Stevens, famed for his perennial plea, "Remonetize silver...
Well-meaning old George Lansbury, M. P., leader of Great Britain's Labor Party, received replies last week to his fervent plea that the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other religious leaders should intervene to stop the "tariff war" now raging between the Mother Country and the Irish Free State (TIME, July...
Busy Mr. Hopson was also bothered last week by a receivership suit against General Gas & Electric, a $129,000,000-in-assets affiliate of A. G. & E., and by a plea made by minority stockholders in Metropolitan Edison Co. that the Pennsylvania Public Service Commission investigate its financial structure and transactions with A. G. & E. Last week's bond-selling came on the heels of a long, substantial rally in bonds which carried the Dow-Jones averages from 65.78 on June 1 to 71.37 last week. It was on June 3 that a group of powerful Manhattan bankers, under...
...plea of insanity by Assassin Dr. PaulGargulov was denied by the Court which found him sane last week, fixedhis trial tentatively for July...
...tribunal promptly sentenced Bo-vone and Sbardellotto to death, Signorina Blaha and five others to 30 years' imprisonment, the remaining two men to ten years. Bovone signed a plea for clemency, Sbardellotto scornfully waved the paper aside. Next morning at daybreak in the courtyard of Fort Bravetta they were chained to chairs. While 500 militiamen shouted, "A Noi!" (To us!), a firing squad smashed the plotters' backs with hard Fascist bullets. "For Benito Mussolini!" cried the commander. "Forward March...