Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whatever the practical results of this disarmament, it will doubtless produce considerable rejoicing among historians, for it will skim from the troublous ocean of international causes its deceptive surface of oil. After the next war apologists of the great powers will scarcely be able to plead intervention--for protection of tiny states, involved in unequal struggles--as the lawful motive for participation...
...Chaloner, who very kindly has acted as my counsel in this trying matter during the year 1924, has advised me to plead guilty. I therefore do so. I am very, very sorry, and I have suffered severely. I therefore ask the public to please try to forget the past and look at my work in Paris during the next five years as the proof of my sincere devotion...
...does not seem quite absurd in view of the fact that it undoubtedly develops self-confidence. It is decidedly upsetting to the Senior who has received no training in oral argument and discussion to be called before what in effect is a bench of judges and be expected to plead the cause of himself versus the graduation requirements of the College...
...modern world is what we call labor. The challenge of labor means not labor of any particular class but of the community laboring as a single unit. Culture and labor should be united as in ancient times when there was no difference between artists and artisans. I plead for an education within and part of the labor of the world," he concluded, "not wholly separated from it. I also plead that divorce may be done away with and that all labor for advancement...
...plead for a fair discussion of the war question? It is not fair to Mr. Cutter to brand the 30 who voted against participation in war is "mock martyrs"; such phrases are easy to invent and only confuse and issue. The subject is of such tremendous importance that we must keep it on the plane of clear thinking and honest sincerity. GARDINER LITTELL...