Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investments. Because the packers agreed to do this rather than face possible fines for criminal acts the case was called the "Consent Decree." Year ago Armour and Swift, backed by lesser packers, sought to have the decree modified. The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia agreed to their plea that distribution methods have changed, that they should be allowed to handle (wholesale only) groceries, fruits, vegetables, dairy products...
Sympathy Appeal. Many a U. S. housewife knows well the student door-to-door salesman with his plea: "Just two more and I get the scholarship." Last week 27 colleges, through the Eastern College Personnel Officers' Association, denounced this "sympathy appeal" as "definitely harmful to the students' moral sense." The Association, whose members get summer jobs for students, will hereafter stipulate against "sympathy appeal" in its contracts...
...restaurants, hat shops, delicatessens. Chairman Porter politely declined these offers, explained that the artists were looking for a chance to sell their works directly to the public. Heeding the wave of public interest, Park Commissioner Herrick reconsidered the whole matter, then refused permission again. Messrs. Porter & Glickstein carried their plea to Commissioner of Police Edward P. Mulrooney...
...Hoover plan, reiterating the opinion that any effective solution must depend on a "policy that seeks to help all simultaneously." In an effort to give weight to his proposal, Mr. Roosevelt punctuated his address with ringing names drawn from the histories of both parties. Concluding that his was a plea, "not for a class control, but for a true concert of interest," Mr. Roosevelt brought the house to its feet by a dramatic appeal, "if that be treason, make the most...
...forthcoming evidence would show that a bungled attempt to castrate Kahahawai resulted in panic and murder. Another possibility was that Lawyer Darrow would claim that something occurred at the Fortescue cottage which produced in the defendants a state of temporary emotional insanity. Recalled was his success with an insanity plea in the Loeb-Leopold case when Drs. Edward Huntington Williams and James Orbison, California alienists, mysteriously arrived in Honolulu last week at the summons of defense counsel...