Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plea in Homespun. That the House was able to finish its tax bill last week was due chiefly to a speech by Speaker Garner. He had held aloof the week before when a "soak-the-rich" coalition knocked out the Sales Tax and left the house groggy and disorganized. The Press howled its disapproval. Securities declined. Government bonds dropped. Was the House, after all. going to shirk the duty of increasing taxation sufficiently to balance the Budget? It appeared possible until Speaker Garner in his old grey suit went down into the well and began to address the House...
...plea was a simple homespun one? the Budget must be balanced: no matter what kind of taxes had to be imposed. As for the Sales Tax, he was opposed to that but he would levy it "or any other kind" to balance the Budget. His face grew red and his voice sharp as he told his colleagues that it was their ''paramount duty" to supply revenue to maintain the Government's financial integrity. If the Budget was not balanced, he warned, foreigners would withdraw their deposits from the U. S., the dollar would be driven off the gold standard, every...
...Soaking." The defeat of the Sales Tax brought down severe criticism upon Congress. The Democrats were accused of "soaking the rich" and "conscripting wealth." Speaker Garner was denounced for failing to control his party in an emergency. (This week he took the floor with a budget-balancing plea.) The Democratic "chaos" was taken to prove that the party was not "fit to rule." But the House majority against the Sales Tax clearly reflected the sentiment of the country as a whole where the revolt against the staggering mass of direct and tangible taxes has been steadily progressing. Anti-sales-taxers...
With a written confession to the crime already in the Government's hands, substantiated almost completely in person last week by the 21-year-old prisoner, counsel for the defense concentrated on a self-defense plea to save his client from the looming gallows. "I propose to prove," he told the jury, "that this girl, many times the boy's mental and emotional superior, made him drink a quantity of liquor before he would take her to the dance. I propose to remind this court what is known to everyone here-that tulapai to an Apache is murder...
...above) was tested last week in Tucson, Ariz. Errett Lobban Cord's Century Pacific Lines, Ltd. appeared before the Arizona Corporation Commission to ask a certificate of necessity & convenience for carrying passengers between Douglas, Tucson & Phoenix on its route from Los Angeles to El Paso. Opposing the plea was American Airways, Inc. with the claim that it had pioneered the territory, that it was giving adequate service with three round trips daily between Tucson & Phoenix, that it could give more whenever traffic warranted and that its investment was threatened by invasion (TIME...