Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shady Englewood, N. J. one mid-day last week drove nine jovial members of the U. S. Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce to have lunch with air-minded Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow. The night before, after a radio speech in behalf of a Jewish charity drive, he complained of being tired, but said he would be in shape for the luncheon. When the guests rolled up before the comfortable Morrow home, not many miles from where another great New Jersey citizen was dying, they were met with shocking news; when the Senator had not awakened by 11:30 that morning...
...steam yacht before he was interested in sailing. He first challenged for the America's Cup in 1899 with Shamrock, followed in 1901, 1903, 1920, 1930 by successive Shamrocks. He never won the Cup. He spent $10,000,000 on these races, was considering another challenge on behalf of the Royal Yacht Squadron, to which he was at last elected...
...annual reception to foreign students of Harvard University, held yesterday afternoon at Phillips Brooks House, attracted a considerable number of students from other countries. After a few preliminary remarks in behalf of Phillips Brooks House by Peregrine White '33, chairman of the Foreign Students Committee for this year, the group was welcomed to Harvard by Dean Willard Learoyd Sperry of the Theological School...
...Hays and astute Clarence Darrow of Chicago took up the case of a purported next-of-kin to the late Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel, the bulk of whose estate (esti mated $50,000,000 to $75,000,000) was left to charity (TIME, March 23 et seq.). On behalf of the claimant, one Rosa Dew Stansbury, small, 74-year-old spinster of Vicksburg, Miss., they sought to have set aside a waiver which she had signed for $1,000 without benefit of counsel; the fight began when Lawyer Hays obtained a temporary injunction restraining the estate from using...
...Mayor, in his visit to President Lowell's office at 10 o'clock, was acting in behalf of New York authorities. Mayor James J. Walker of New York City, and F. J. Taylor, chairman of the Mayor's Committee on Unemployment sent a telegram to Mayor Curley on September 29, requesting his cooperation in negotiations with University authorities...