Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Phillips Brooks House but in the history of the Harvard Law School, will be taken next week when the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau will be established. This Bureau will undertake without charge to give legal advice, to draw up contracts and other papers, and to appear in court in behalf of clients. All this service will be free to anyone who cares to use it. Whenever the matter is too serious to be handled by the Bureau itself, a capable lawyer will be employed...
...campaign that followed, Candidate Igoe made the most of whatever degree of White House partiality was shown by the facts that Assistant Attorney General Joe Keenan journeyed to Illinois to speak on his behalf and that pink-whiskered Senator James Hamilton Lewis gave him his public support. Candidate Lucas, who voted against Roosevelt on the Wages-&-Hours Bill, parried by sticking to the local issue of "Throw out the Bosses." In last week's balloting, as early reports came in from the metropolitan districts, Candidate Igoe rolled up an impressive lead of 70,000 votes which began to dwindle...
...Radical John Reed, continued free-lance writing. He once wrote in the New Masses: "If a college professor . . . admits that he is a Communist, no college will take him. If there are any college presidents who really believe in academic freedom, they are too busy battling their trustees on behalf of the radicals they already have to take on any more. (I hope I am wrong. If I am, any college president who wants to prove it can have both my apologies and my services...
...Wyman, familiar timer at Harvard meets, awarded his trophy, for the man scoring the most points in dual meet competition, for the third year in a row to Hutter. Hutter retaliated, in behalf of the team, with a new gabardine sport coat for Ulen, who has amazed swimming fans for years by appearing in his "lucky" coat for every meet...
When A. T. & T. President Walter Gifford read these recommendations he exploded in wrath: "The investigation . . . was one-sided from start to finish. We were denied not only the right to cross-examine investigation witnesses and to be heard in our own behalf but were denied the right to have included in the record written material which we had prepared and considered necessary to point out serious and important errors affecting most of the investigators' reports. Commissioner Walker's report must be appraised in light of these facts. ... It presents much that is imply not true...