Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author of Stained Glass Tours in France (1908), In England (1909), In Italy (1913), In Spain & Flanders (1924), In Germany (1927). ¶Mrs. Mary Mooney, 84, mother of California Convict Tom Mooney, called at the White House. Told that the President was too busy to hear her plea for her son's release, she left her appeal in manuscript. Other visitors last week who did see the President: Jay Herod, 10, San Francisco violin prodigy, Alayne Brown, 15, St. Louis sharpshooter. ¶ President Hoover signed a bill which will cause the distribution to the needy...
...lost. In a stirring plea M. Tardieu asks winebibbers the world over to join in the rescue of the vineyards. They must organize and play politics, to save wine from the greedy budgets and siccant reformers. Imposts, tariffs, taxes, embargoes must fall to make way for the return of Falernian and Caecuban. Propaganda must teach the gospel of Bacchus, and the world be taught again to hold precious the gifts of the god. Meanwhile, liqueurs, the misbegotten brats of Mercury and Ceres, hold sway. Men drink, but they feel the touch of Circe's wand, not the warming joys...
...from the railroad credit pool as it went into receivership before the pool was established. Wabash had $5,000,000 worth of securities. On this collateral it wished to borrow $18,500,000. Though R. F. C. ruled that no application or loan shall be made public, the Wabash plea became known through the Federal court handling its receivership...
...that the boy be released in his custody, allowed to go to Father Flanagan's home for waifs and waywards near Omaha, Neb. In making his decision public, Governor Hartley did not conceal his irritation at Father Flanagan's intercession. The priest had journeyed from Omaha to Seattle. His plea was strongly backed by Washington's Press, Pulpit and American Legion. "Apparently," Governor Hartley wrote to Father Flanagan, "many persons do not realize that the moment Herbert stepped outside the boundaries of this State he would be free. . . . Legal authority over the boy could not be vested...
...transplanted Teutons. Then Maier said he needed another $2,500 to swing the Lloyd's pier lease. The Bremen and the Europa were abuilding. The line, "desperate" for a big North River dock, was forced to play Tammany's game, so Herr Schuengel addressed a plea to George Washington Olvany, leader of Tammany Hall. Why? "I tried all means and every purpose at my disposal to get a pier and, therefore, I thought that in addressing such a letter to the leader of Tammany Hall ... it would bring matters along. . . . Having the understanding that the city officials...