Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while Aunt Mary was winning her parliamentary battle last week was preparing for a very different battle of his own, v. Representatives O'Connell and Bernard. * That Mary Norton is a political ally of Boss Hague by no means argues a lack of sincerity in her efforts on behalf of labor legislation. On the other hand, neither her sincerity nor her afternoon of triumph last week indicates that Aunt Mary, who as chairman of the House District Committee was a great success as "the first woman Mayor of Washington," has been an equally outstanding success as Labor chairman. Undoubtedly...
...lords mistrusted his honesty, once because he refused to play up to a smart mistress behind the throne. Typical of the topical way Confucius coined his maxims was the crack he delivered on this occasion. "I have never known anyone," declared the sage, "who will work so hard on behalf of virtue as for a beautiful face...
Nominated by the advisory board of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and formally awarded by President Nicholas Murray Butler in behalf of the University's trustees, the annual Pulitzer Prizes this week were awarded as follows...
...House group, composed of the seven House Committee chairmen, was inaugurated last fall to apportion dates for the House dances, and to prevent conflicts. The success of the Committee in this direction has been very mild. Four possible conflicts, it is true, have been averted on the Committee's behalf. But at Christmas time the first major conflict occurred when Winthrop held a dance the same night as did Kirkland. Since then the Inter-House Committee has been inactive, with the possible consequence that supervision of House dances will pass into higher hands...
...chairman of the Spanish Nationalist relief committee, A. Hamilton Rice '98, Professor of Geographical Exploration and Director of the Geographical Institute will speak tomorrow night at Symphony Hall at a mass meeting on behalf of Fascist Spain...