Word: plead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time came when the Congress of the United States compensated Lafayette; and I have upon my desk now the statue which we enacted paying him for his services and deeding to him a large tract of land. The United States met every obligation and she did not plead at that time, as it is pleaded now, that the war was fought upon her territory and therefore we should not pay the debt. She did not plead that France came into the war late, after the battle of Saratoga, and, therefore, we should not pay the debt. She did not plead...
...midst of a burning debate on this subject arose Aristide Briand, seven times Premier of France, to plead with Premier Herriot to recede from his position before it was too late and to warn him that he ran the risk of uniting all French Catholics against him,. He told the Premier that it was often difficult for small countries to reach the Papal ear; and if France were no longer at the Vatican, it would be next to impossible. "We can play the part of Big Brother without much cost and with great profit," he continued, "but if we leave...
...Northeastern business school in Chicago. And business English is short and "Kicky". At last the lie is passed to Shakespeare, Browne, and Johnson, and all the other foreigners who talked over the businessman's head: they didn't write good English. The son of the Rotarian may henceforth plead scot-free of Milton: he didn't write good English...
That, in outlining their defense (all the defendants declared they would plead "Not Guilty"), the newspapers fell back upon the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, that Amendment which guarantees to the press the right of free speech. Everyone was agreed that the law provided that the tax lists should be placed "open to public inspection." The question, as the Herald-Tribune framed it, would therefore be: "Can Congress say, 'You may talk, but you may not write...
Countered Judge Talley, upholder of the death penalty, the Chicago trial coming to his mind: "You can't blow hot and cold on this. You can't on one day plead for a man because he is poor, and on the next ask mercy because he is rich and over-educated." He stated that were the death penalty abolished, there would be no possible deterrent to killing, since no criminal feared the pleasant conditions of a jail. In prison, Judge Talley said, ruffians are bedded with a comfort, fed with a largess, that they could never themselves have...