Word: plea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well known. Guided by purely legal and technical aspects the Law demanded a conviction for the public sale of "Lady Chatterly's Lover." To Attorney Bushnell devolved the unsavory task of pressing the charges and securing the conviction; in performing his public duty he had no choice. His plea yesterday for revocation of the charges was naturally based on his and the community's indignation against the Watch and Ward Society's use of falsehood and deception in securing the evidence against Mr. Delacey...
...nation. Last week President Hoover received, among many another: 1) Ivar Kreuger, Swedish match tycoon; 2) The Earl of Derby here for the Kentucky race; 3) U. S. Circuit Court Judge John Johnston Parker, Supreme Court rejectee; 4) Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor with a plea against curtailed Navy Yard employment; 5) Professor Enrico Glickenstein, Polish drypoint etcher; 6) Dr. William Oxley Thompson, president emeritus of Ohio State University; 7) Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico, asking for a $3,000,000 relief fund; 8) Charles C. Younggreen, president of the Advertising Federation of America...
Reared under a system that rancored, the author still recognizes that great teachers are always free from the trammels of the traditional or unproductive methods. His plea is for a system that will do its work well through the incorporation of scientific principles, rather than by dependency on the rare teacher of "Humanitas." He adds to that plea, the tried and proved remedies for the specific sores in the sleeping body of learning. There is no sounder precept of progress than this...
...reduce their wheat acreages by 10% as a cooperative means of cutting the 1930 crop surplus. Ground was already broken, seed on hand. Not before summer will the Department of Agriculture be able to estimate whether northwest wheat men followed Chairman Legge's advice or whether his warning-plea reached them too late...
...good thing for both of us, I wouldn't take it as a gift. My policy is to take a plant and make it grow." Then, in a torrent of emotion, Orator Schwab told of his long friendship with Mr. Campbell, ended up with a plea: ''Jim Campbell, right or wrong, follow him." To Chairman Schwab, President Grace is the perfect complement. Cool, logical, incisive. Mr. Grace quoted figures to show Bethlehem spends money on its plants, increases its payrolls. ''The strength of Bethlehem."' he said, "lies in the strength of local institutions...