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...hear him is no myth: I have been in non-union towns and cities where organizers have taken the stump to address the men, only to be promptly arrested and carried to jail. Time and again have I seen men beg to be taken to the station to plead their case in the presence of a magistrate before being placed under lock and key. Often there seems to be no local justice in our industrial towns. When the labor organizer is confronted with the situation of a mayor and local capitalist being one and the same man, he almost despairs...
...been said of many another masterpiece, a setting forth of thoughts that everyone has felt but no one has expressed. And if anyone finds himself disgusted with the cheap sophistication and cheaper knowledge of present generation, let him turn to Professor Perry's volume and plead, with it, for a return to the ways of the Humanists, with "their delicacy of touch, their sense of humor, their essential innocence, their childlike faith in Nature...
...Ritz in the Social Register section and he will promptly begin staying late at the club. You will catch him having lunch with a vapid vampire and soon he will request a divorce. Then you will go to your father who, fortunately enough, owns the chemical works and tearfully plead for counsel. Your father will advise going to live alone in the bungalow where once you were poor but happy together. Then father will see to it that your husband loses his job and the vampire presents him with the atmosphere. After a few hard weeks he will acknowledge himself...
...Frank J. Goodnow, President of Johns Hopkins, took occasion in his commencement address to plead for " academic freedom " in American universities, and to condemn the " recent tendency which has been directed towards dictating to those who teach what they shall and shall not teach, and towards excluding from textbooks matter believed to be objectionable." The Hirshfields and Atwoods are apparently to have opposition they will scarcely be able to meet...
...deposed Sultan, Mohammed VI, appointed a delegation of nine to accompany him to Lausanne, where he intends to plead the cause of Islam against the Kemalists. He has left Mecca in the Hedjaz, where he was the guest of King Hussein, and is now en route for Switzerland...