Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gross injustice to a man whose entire work has been that of legal research, briefing and trial work. So far as I have been able to learn, Mr. Michel has never personally solicited a case in his life. While he may be responsible for the conduct of anyone in behalf of his firm, nevertheless to convey the impression that he is a mere solicitor instead of one of the outstanding lawyers of the State is highly unfair...
...behalf of Ernest Michel, his candidate for a Federal judgeship, Minnesota's blind Senator Schall last week carried to the White House his fight against Attorney General Mitchell, chief Michel critic. He told President Hoover: "Taft wrecked his Administration by trusting Ballinger, Harding wrecked his by trusting Daugherty and Fall. Are you going to wreck yours by further trusting your Attorney General...
...three long days of prosecution he counterattacked the testimony presented against him. For two longer days, without offering witnesses in his behalf, not even the second Mrs. Cannon, major cause of the trial,? he rebutted and argued his own aggressive defense. Then he crutched his way out of the Church jury room and went back to Sibley Memorial Hospital...
...shot Lin-gle." Last week, one month after his arrest, Leo V. Brothers had his first hearing in open court, mumbled "On the advice of my attorneys I stand mute." Under the law the judge thereupon directed that a plea of "Not Guilty" be entered on behalf of Brothers...
Along with Will Rogers, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Calvin Coolidge, Mary Pickford, last week President Hoover made a radio appeal in behalf of the $10,000,000 Red Cross Drought Relief fund. Said he:"It is unthinkable that any of our people should suffer from hunger or want. The heart of the nation will not permit it. It is to the heart of the nation that I am appealing tonight. I urge all of my fellow countrymen to contribute promptly and in accordance with their means" It was generally agreed that the President's speech sounded more like reading-from...