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...radio broadcaster as well as a sports writer can always be constrained by decency and courtesy, even if he must make mistakes in description and judgment, and to plead service to the public as any excuse for thoughtlessness or careless use of undeservedly offensive epithets is adding ignorance to bad taste. Neither newspaper nor radio is bound to serve the public to the point of boorishness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ban Deserved | 11/27/1931 | See Source »

...plead guilty! I did not mean the noble lady should understand it. (laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Nov. 23, 1931 | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...votes, he carried all but four of 21 counties. His Republican opponent, bald, chunky David Baird Jr.. onetime Senator (by appointment), polled 501,226 votes, despite the fact that Ambassador Walter Evans Edge came home from France to flap his elbows on the stump for the party nominee, plead for a "Hoover victory." For the first time since 1913, when Thomas Woodrow Wilson became President, the Assembly went Democratic. With tears in his eyes, Governor-elect Moore responded to the cheers of several thousand Jersey City friends who set off fireworks. Beside themselves with enthusiasm, the mob then rushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Off-Year Votes | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...What do you plead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 9, 1931 | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...Worksop in Nottinghamshire he took a day off from his own troubles to plead for the re-election of his son Malcolm. Again the MacDonald temper wore thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Seaham | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

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