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From the front Government bench soldierly Sir Lambert Ward had hoisted himself up to plead the Government's case on a bill. In excitement he moved farther & farther out toward the centre of the hall. Suddenly came hoots of laughter and great cries of "Order! Order!" Sir Lambert looked around in bewilderment, hesitated, looked at his feet, jumped back...
Blushed Cunliffe-Lister: "I plead slightly guilty. I find to my surprise that I own three shares of Vickers stock bringing me dividends of 7½ shillings a year. I thought I had sold all my Vickers holdings years ago." Star accusation of the session was made when Harry Pollitt, testifying on behalf of the British Communist Party, charged that George V's own cousin, Prince Arthur of Connaught, held 5,000 5% preference shares of Vickers...
...hand. Visions of prison walls, deportation, even the chair passed in rapid succession before his eyes as he waited. Now that he thought of it, he had made some pretty serious criticism of the N.R.A. at dinner last week. In a moment a gruff voice demanded him to plead guilty or not guilty to charges of running a "Date Bureau" supposedly for the arrangement of rendezvous between Harvard students, in fact, males in general and certain Cambridge lassies. Of course our here indignantly pleaded "Not Guilty." The authorities didn't believe him, they said and let him go with...
...profession and the hero of such bright young Republicans as Nicholas Murray Butler. Henry Lewis Stimson, Robert Low Bacon, when in 1899 President McKinley let it be known that he wanted a first-rank lawyer for Secretary of War. Someone was needed who could plan and plead reorganization in the slipshod War Department, set up administrations for the colonies newly-won from Spain. Appointed, Lawyer Root did both jobs brilliantly. He stayed on with Theodore Roosevelt and, when John Hay died, he became one of the ablest Secretaries of State in U. S. history...
...capacity of the Liberal Club would be accurate. Yet consistency is a virtue which can be practices with profit by the CRIMSON. And, finally, indulging in what is perhaps a pardonable personality, it seems to me that if the CRIMSON can demonstrate the economic harm to and plead for social justice for the Chinese in the editorial "The Orient's Silver" it is quite inconsistent to inveigh, in the next column, against the Liberal Club's petition to Congress...