Word: plead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students suspect that the villian of the piece is attached to the Brattle Street Police Station, when actually the trouble is much nearer home. Aside from the expense and time wasted in court by students waiting to plead guilty, in inertia of University officials has given the local police a black eye which they do not deserve. Repeatedly it has been suggested both in these columns and by the police that the tracts of land surrounding the Business School and New Biological Institute be utilized for parking spaces...
That demand cannot be denied in theory. But the realities of the situation are opposed to it. It is exceedingly difficult, even now; to get a conviction for these malpractices. Bankers invariably plead "ignorance" or claim that the whole affair was "just a mistake." If the penalty were increased, it would be almost impossible. The present sentence is as effective a deterrent as any. What is needed is a speedier, stronger handling of the existing laws. Congress has recently acted to speed up the appellate process in Federal courts. This should be extended to state jurisdiction as well, making...
Then the visiting began in earnest. Western legislators arrived to plead remonetization of silver. An Ohio delegation came to get a Cabinet job. Republicans packed the Roosevelt levee as well as Democrats. Oregon's McNary came because he is chairman of the Senate's Agricultural Committee. He heard Mr. Roosevelt's wish that the Domestic Allotment plan be limited to wheat, cotton, hogs and tobacco, that it be enacted by this session in time to be effective for the 1933 crops. Cultured Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico came because he was a boyhood friend. Hiram Johnson...
...least would have given some support to Mr. Harris' thesis. But the work of both of them might have suggested that the possibility of tragic drama today is a problem for the isolated dramatist to solve in creation, not for the literary critic with a special theory to plead...
Last week's milestone was not erected until after the House had shouted itself hoarse in debate. Within six hours, 40 members in turn bounced up to shout, roar, sob, rant, plead or threaten, for & against. In a decade and one-half Prohibition had been argued threadbare. There was nothing new or sensational left to say. Only stunt: appearance before the House of New York's Sirovich, a physician, with 18 bottles of beer, a pint of Scotch whiskey, a quart of milk and a declaration that the 18 bottles of beer contained the same amount of alcohol...