Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last April's primary, she filed with the Senate committee what she claimed to be the most complete and accurate statement of campaign expenditures ever made by a candidate. Her listed spendings: $252,000. Subsequently it was discovered that some $67,000 had also been spent in her behalf, bringing the total up to $319,000. The Senate committee, suspicious of such outlay, began its own investigation. While they investigated, Mrs. McCormick's office at Byron, Ill. was broken open and her private files ransacked. A woman was found hiding in the closet of her hotel suite...
...Governor Young finishing second. Old is North v. South political antagonism in California. Some observers even predict that this 'rivalry between San Francisco and Los Angeles will eventually overwhelm state pride and cause California to divide into two States. The sectional issue was raised by Southern California in behalf of Candidate Fitts. The Los Angeles Times on the eve of the primary blurted some comparisons: Registered votes. Northern California, 1,066,927; Southern California, 1,120,547. Taxable Wealth. Northern California, $4,292,676,584; Southern California, $5,593,226,600. Contribution to Cost of State Government. Northern California...
Jews were prompt to approve the Mandates Commission's findings. On behalf of the Zionist Organization of America, Robert Szold cabled Sir Eric Drummond, secretary general of the League: "To the Jews' of America the commission's restatement of the objects of the Palestine mandate and its emphatic finding that the mandatory [Britain] has positive and constructive obligations to devote itself actively to the establishment of a Jewish National Home, is a message of hope and encouragement...
...343rd birthday party. At Manteo*; (pop. 394) on Roanoke Island in the sound waters of North Carolina was dedicated a memorial gateway composed of two large pillars, one to Virginia Dare, the other to Manteo, friendly Indian. Miss Mabel Evans accepted the gateway from the U. S. in behalf of the Roanoke Colony Memorial Association. Archibald Henderson, head of the University of North Carolina's mathematics department, spoke of "America's debt of lasting gratitude to the great Raleigh, promulgator of the English colonization movement." On May 8, 1587 Sir Walter Raleigh dispatched from England in three vessels...
...TIME, Aug. 11, Mr. Palmieri expressed the attitude of this veteran of the recent World War who is also opposed to the selfish, money-grab- bing attempts of present veterans organizations in behalf of those of us who were not disabled...