Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behalf of the staff I wish to thank you for your kind mention of our paper the Chatham Chatter...
Another piece of frankness unfamiliar to Oriental diplomacy bobbed up last week when word reached Shanghai from Tokyo that the Chinese Ambassador, old Hsu Shih-ying, had padded up to Japanese Foreign Minister Hirota's office, expressed a desire on behalf of China to arrange a non-aggression pact with Japan. T. V. Soong, former finance minister of China, now one of Chiang Kai-shek's advisers, when informed of the proposal repudiated his Government's representative in about the time it takes to say chicken chow mein. He snorted: "Our Ambassador in Japan is an innocuous...
...onetime graduate Athletic Manager Romeyn Berry (now editorialist of The New Yorker) wrote the following: I have worked with Herman Diederichs 20 years. Half the time I would have died for him and the other half I wanted to kill him. He did a thousand kindly acts in my behalf and never gave me a kind word anytime. He was a big soft-hearted Dutch sentimentalist who studied to be gruff so people wouldn't find him out. I'm still mad at him and this telegraph blank is wet with tears because he won't bawl...
...effect, I spoke in behalf of the American people in their desire for increased respect for, and confidence in, speedy and fundamental justice as represented by the Federal courts...
...posts in Germany by the Nazis. Most of them were Jews, partly Jewish, or married to Jewesses; some were pure "Aryans" who could not stomach the Nazi ideology. By the end of 1936 the Rockefeller Foundation had given a total of $532,000 to universities and research institutions on behalf of 151 of these scholars, most of whom have found permanent posts outside Germany...