Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...14th Amendment was originally adopted in behalf of the Negro, just freed by the Civil War. It was primarily aimed at Southern States anxious to put Blacks on a lower legal level than Whites. Economic evolutions gradually obscured this purpose from judicial sight until today the 14th Amendment constitutes the Federal Government's major control over most State legislation. By it the Supreme Court becomes the censor of all important economic and social experiments within the States. Does Kansas want to set up a compulsory Labor Court to fix wages and outlaw strikes? The Supreme Court, under the second...
...organized Lincoln Motor Co. to produce Liberty Motors for the Federal Government. Converted to automobile production after the War, the Lincoln company failed and was purchased by Henry Ford, with an alleged agreement that the 2.400 stock-holders would be partially reimbursed. Though Henry Leland on the stockholders behalf sued Henry Ford for $6,000,000, the courts refused to recognize the verbal contract...
...Speaker Garner were actively directing an organization working nationally in his behalf, he would probably do a workmanlike job of it, for he has a direct way of going at problems that makes for speed, dispatch, and thoroughness. He is not doing so. He is contented where he is, although needless to say, he will be a receptive dark horse. It is not likely, however, on the strength of his record, that he will make concessions to win the nomination...
...found the murderer of Miss Schmerler. A graduate student of ethnology, she had gone to live on the White River Reservation to study for her thesis. Brought to trial Prisoner Seymour had firm backing from his tribe. His bewildered 19-year-old wife, mother of two, testified in his behalf. An old patriarch called "R-14" (Indian agents can not figure out how his name should be Anglicized) donated $1,500 to hire a defense lawyer...
...severed ribbon was tied together. Premier Lang cut it with his shiny scissors. On behalf of His Majesty George V, "of Australia King," Sir Philip Game read a message...