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...taught from the cradle up to respect and love our women. That's why our divorce rate is nil compared with the State of which Judge Lazarus is a proud son. If to respect and love womenfolks is savagery, then make the most of it, Judge. We plead guilty...
Fortnight ago lively Director John Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation stepped briskly before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee to plead for an increase of $1,025,000 in his organization's 1937 spending money. Kidnapping would sweep the country again, he said, if one cent were slashed from the proposed amount. Promptly Tennessee's McKellar launched a blistering attack on the Bureau for strong-arm methods, swell-headedness. "It seems to me," the vociferous Senator snapped, "your department is just running wild." Evidently more impressed by Senator McKellar than by Director Hoover, the subcommittee sliced...
...Diplomat von Ribbentrop sat down, he realized that the Council must almost certainly vote to condemn Germany, hastily popped up again to plead that it would be "unfair" to Germany to vote at once. Seemingly the brothers-in-law hoped that even a brief delay would bring intervention favorable to Germany from Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. This was still possible, but French Foreign Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin, tall, big-boned and fair, again showed that he knows remarkably well how to handle Britons. The usual sort of Frenchman would almost certainly have demanded an immediate vote, and in so doing...
...admission must be made: all these appeals to your intelligence and righteousness do exercise those qualities within you, keeping them strong and healthy. No matter how commendable your resulting opinion and action, I have to that extent diluted the poisonous does, adulterated my product. In defense I can only plead the necessity of some good in accomplishing even the most desirable ends...
...mind to chuck A. F. of L.'s President William Green, who got his cheek slit in a coal mine, out of the small office he holds in the U. M. W. It therefore took considerable courage for Miner Green to march into the convention and plead that "experience has taught us that both plans [of union organization] can be included" in the Federation. But William Green's words fell on hostile ears. At one point he was booed so relentlessly that John Lewis had to heave himself up and wave for silence. "What delegates wish to change...