Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Concluding the sixth day of his appearance before the House Naval Affairs Committee, which had scheduled but two days for the hearings, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, said his last say in behalf of the bill. According to him, the Navy needed every penny of the money because costly $65,000,000 battleships were still the best available allaround naval weapons. The nation's highest ranking seadog announced that "recent air operations on the Coast of China" had convinced him that airplanes alone could not prevent an enemy expeditionary force from landing, and that airplanes alone...
President Conant, who may speak in behalf of repeal today, said last year, "I do not believe it a step in the path of freedom and of liberty but inspired by an atmosphere of fear...
...behalf of the U. S. utility industry, Electric Bond & Share, largest utility holding company, last week presented a brief to the U. S. Supreme Court attacking the Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. On behalf of the U. S. Government, Messrs. Homer Cummings, Robert Jackson, Thomas Corcoran and Ben Cohen simultaneously filed a brief which asserted, among other things, that if Congress has the right to curb white slavery and bootleg liquor it "certainly is not without power to curb financial chicanery and abuses which have brought ruin to millions." Thus, after over two years of catch-as-catch...
...great pity that what used to be considered the leading organ in this country-the Times-should become the organ on behalf of the British Government. That was the present position of that paper...
...great pity that we should have what used to be considered the leading organ in this country, the Times, becoming an organ on behalf of a foreign government. That is the present position of that paper...