Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover last week was spared the embarrassing necessity of saying yes-or-no to the pardon petition of his one-time Cabinet colleague Albert Bacon Fall, now No. 6991 in the New Mexico State Penitentiary. Bribee Fall's plea for executive clemency got no farther than the Department of Justice where Attorney General Mitchell announced that it was automatically denied because it lacked the approval of Trial Judge William Hitz and Prosecutor Atlee Pomerene...
...support for the railroads' rate plea finally came last week from the "Big Four" Brotherhoods (Railway Conductors, Locomotive Engineers, Railroad Trainmen, Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen). Mindful of the carriers' threat to cut wages unless they won a rate increase, the presidents of these potent labor organizations jointly declared that they felt "such action will have a beneficial effect on general business conditions...
...your July 27 issue of TIME, I came across an interesting paragraph in the "Miscellany" column. It dealt with a small child addressing a plea for money on a letter, to God, City of Detroit. Obviously this letter was opened-but what I would like to know is, Who opened it? A very presumptuous person, if a clergyman. But as a matter of curiosity, would you please clear this...
Pressing Ex Parte 103, their case for a 15% freight rate increase before the Interstate Commerce Commission, the railroads of the land last week won their first strategic victory over shippers opposing their plea. The I. C. C. originally scheduled the opening of opposition testimony for Aug. 31. In closing their case last week the roads' witnesses vehemently contended that time was an essential consideration, that a six-weeks delay in acting on their petition might do the carriers great financial damage. Grenville Clark, attorney for banks and insurance companies with heavy rail investments, heatedly suggested that Commissioners postpone...
Such was the price wheatmen in Texas and Oklahoma as well as Kansas had to pay for their bull-headed refusal to heed the Federal Farm Board's plea to reduce acreage. Over & over had they been warned that the bottom would drop out of their staple market if they persisted in overproduction. Now they were literally reaping as they had sowed...