Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strictest controls possible under the Agricultural Adjustment Act: The imposition of prohibitive taxes on any producer who markets more than a fixed crop quota in 1939. To the question of how the farmers of the U. S. feel about the most ambitious farm program ever undertaken on their behalf, the Election might spell out a huge Yes, No, or Maybe...
...formal statement the plan's sponsors, nucleus of The Independents, said: "We feel that our campaign at this time is a necessary complement to the worthy drive now being conducted in behalf of German refugee students...
...serious note in the affair was supplied by Miss Ethel T. Heller, chairman of the sponsoring committee, who made a stirring plea in behalf of Chinese democracy. Around her neck, Miss Heller wore a picture of herself taken at the age of three. She refused to have her picture taken again and furiously staved off the socially-conscious Harvard boys bent on mobbing the dressing room...
...were not admitted to House and are forced to spend their days regretting that fact. The latter are clearly the more deserving, and a great deal of printer's ink, ranging from suggestions in these columns to a more recent plagiarism of Jonathan Swift, has been expended in their behalf. The University was slow in taking steps, very possibly because the condition was considered temporary Justice and a certain mild realism now demand that Harvard find a permanent solution for a problem which ha itself become permanent, and that it find some stop-gap until this remedy is put into...
...medal (first-class German Eagle), did his best to make a case for it. Said he: "I have consistently attempted to maintain the historical attitude of understanding and interpreting Germany. . . . Assuming that my citation by the present German Government is a recognition and appreciation of my efforts in behalf of justice toward Germany, I intend to accept...