Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that indifference means aloofness to social progress (a better phrase than conservatism), it is time to sit up and redefine the slogan. This lecturer, Mr. Rollo Brown, claims that "it is no more to be expected that Harvard will kick free of her restraints and lead off boldly in behalf of any economic democracy that would elevate large numbers of submerged individual men to opportunities of growth than that Duke University will launch a crusade against the use of tobacco." He points out that Harvard's closest relatives are its financial sources, which to a large degree have originated from...
...Oklahoma, where there is no poll tax, 60,000 of the State's 225,000-odd Negroes registered this year, an all-time high. Of these, 45,000 signed up as Democrats. When Franklin Roosevelt appeared in Oklahoma City in behalf of his friend Senator Elmer Thomas, Negroes were allotted 300 seats in the grandstand. Mr. Thomas' Negro campaign managers claimed their man got 90% of the Negro vote...
Month ago, after sending agents into Kentucky to explore alleged WPA activities in behalf of Senator "Dear Alben" Barkley's renomination, the Senate Campaign Investigating Committee handed a bill of particulars to WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins and asked him: What about it? Last week, having had no reply from Mr. Hopkins, Chairman Sheppard of the committee prodded Mr. Hopkins with another letter. This time he used strong phrases-"flagrantly violated," "criminal statutes." The committee declared that its evidence, supported by more than 100 affidavits, showed that...
...Jews from all over the World met in Antwerp last week to launch an appeal for $10,000,000 in behalf of the Palestine Foundation Fund. Dr. Kurt Blumenfeld, Director of the Fund, urged a change in "Jewish methods of propaganda" to oppose Communism as well as Fascism. Treasurer Eliezer Kaplan of the Jewish Agency for Palestine complained: "Jews because of their indifference and failure to provide adequate funds are equally responsible with the British Government for the decline of Jewish immigration to Palestine...
...express and passengers was not Newark but New York City. Laughed out of his lethal scheme to set an airport on Governor's Island, right under the skyscraper windows of downtown Manhattan, the Little Flower, a harum-scarum War flyer on the Italian front, was then battling in behalf of Floyd Bennett Field, which had been begun in boom times by nifty Tammany Mayor Jimmy Walker on the Brooklyn shore of Jamaica Bay. Floyd Bennett had advantages over smelly Newark but it had the disadvantage of being separated from Manhattan by a tedious, 15-mile series of traffic snags...