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What though we beg and plead and coax...
...make an exception in favor of squash in this emergency will create a precedent. This is evasion, not reasoning. There will be no precedent unless, when future cases arise, the Association chooses to consider it as such. The rule is good enough for general policy, but when all considerations plead for an exception, as they do in this instances, it should not stand...
...time came when the Congress of the United States compensated Lafayette; and I have upon my desk now the statue which we enacted paying him for his services and deeding to him a large tract of land. The United States met every obligation and she did not plead at that time, as it is pleaded now, that the war was fought upon her territory and therefore we should not pay the debt. She did not plead that France came into the war late, after the battle of Saratoga, and, therefore, we should not pay the debt. She did not plead...
...midst of a burning debate on this subject arose Aristide Briand, seven times Premier of France, to plead with Premier Herriot to recede from his position before it was too late and to warn him that he ran the risk of uniting all French Catholics against him,. He told the Premier that it was often difficult for small countries to reach the Papal ear; and if France were no longer at the Vatican, it would be next to impossible. "We can play the part of Big Brother without much cost and with great profit," he continued, "but if we leave...
When Chancellor Luther stood up to plead support for his so-called Non-Partisan Cabinet (actually it is predominantly Monarchist), a Communist yelled: "You henchman of Morgan...