Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Cheek. In St. Joseph, Mo., William Bailor, haled into court for beating his wife, got released on her tearful plea, left the court, promptly socked her again...
...Flatbush blamed Leo and Laraine for flying to Juarez, Mexico, to get her a second divorce with no strings attached, or for driving back to El Paso to be married. But Los Angeles' Superior Judge George A. Dockweiler, who had granted Miss Day's first divorce plea, had a big objection. Together, the judge and the Durochers fought through the jungle of U.S. divorce laws...
...Statler, and in the course of its deliberations neatly side stopped the most ubiquitous and difficult of all pedagogical problems--money. The nettlesome issue of Federal subsidies for higher education stood high on the agenda, and one of the keynote speeches featured Dr. Carmichael of Tufts in a fervent plea for Federal aid. Then, quietly, the convention sent the resolution back to committee with a recommendation that the membership be polled a second time on a question to which it had already responded "Aye" by a preponderant majority...
From Sonators of both parties and former Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles came support of the plea voiced last night at Cleveland by the New Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that this government cease to "dictate" delay by objections to Argentina's Peron regime...
...organizations) denounced the movie as "the worst sort of caricature of both Jews and Catholics ... a film that sets us back 20 years. . . ." Director Eddie Sutherland hopefully asserted that 25% of the average moviegoers who have seen the new Abie in seven preview cities have pronounced it "a great plea for tolerance...