Word: plead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banana and timber land and 65 mi. of railroad. Seven of its employes had been murdered. Fifty thousand "stems" (bunches) of bananas were rotting for lack of transportation. Inland plantations were paralyzed. Activities at Puerto Cabezas were suspended. Vainly in Washington did William Cyprien Dufour, Standard Fruit's attorney, plead for military protection in land. Washington Irving Moss, Standard's chairman, telegraphed urgently to the White House from New Orleans. When Secretary Stimson announced withdrawal, Standard officials in New Orleans expressed "profound disappointment," predicted that Nicaraguan bandits would now dare greater depredations...
Agreeing to plead guilty if the prosecutor would promise him and Grate a quick execution, Prisoner Gibbons declared: "We want the quickest way out of this thing. The thing's been on my mind ever since the fire. We don't want to go back to the penitentiary. We've been there for nine years and know what it's like. It's not the prisoners but the officials we are afraid of. That's why we don't want to get a life sentence...
...pass upon the parole applications, only three of them actually come here to hear the cases. They claim they are allowed only one or two minutes to present their cases. They say they are sworn at by the board members. I have gone to Springfield myself several times to plead that changes be made in execution of this law and Warden Hill has also pleaded for changes. I know personally of at least 25 men in this penitentiary who were sent here for crimes they didn't commit...
Gandhi & Reds. Communist leaders in Bombay took the line last week that "Gandhi betrayed the proletariat by his pact with Irwin!" It is true that Mr. Gandhi arranged the release of his own non-violent demonstrators first; but he continued last week to plead with the British for release of even violent, proletarian agitators. This, to the Communists, was no excuse. They greeted the little brown man in Bombay with roars of "Down with Gandhi! Down with his Nationalist Party! Down with British Imperialism...
...Nice, French Riviera, deep-dimpled Mrs. Fred G. Nixon-Nirdlinger, the young U. S. citizen who slew her elderly Philadelphia husband (TIME, March 23), was loudly cheered by 1,000 Niceois when she went to court to plead for bail. Bail was denied. The prisoner was returned to the cell which she shares with a French Negress charged with murder, was told that she may have to spend the Summer there awaiting trial...