Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have to thank you on behalf of the Moslems interested in this scheme for the sympathetic notice of it in your columns. I ask your indulgence, however, in the interests of accuracy, to publish the fact that though originally a design of the Mosque was prepared by Sir Brumwell Thomas, yet that is not the design which is to be adopted when the building of the Mosque commences. Apart from other things, that design was much too ambitious and expensive for the funds at the disposal of the Nizamiah Mosque Trust and has had to be given up. The present...
...carefully investigated and find no actual existence of such an organization, registered as an organization, as a firm, partnership, person or persons doing business under an assumed name by and in accordance with the statutes of the State. . . . We are forced to conclude that the named confederation on whose behalf you communicate with our Chief of Police is a legal nonentity...
...behalf of an aged and indignant client, Mrs. Eva J. Hurst, we have been searching unsuccessfully for two years to find one Nat Lichtblau who it appears was one of a gang of high-pressure salesmen who secured by misrepresentation our client's last $12,000 worth of securities." Senator Wheeler suggested that Lawyer Washburn ask the Democratic National Committee about Lichtblau's "whereabouts and antecedents...
...behalf of patriotic Americans and particularly as representing several hundred thousand men who served their country in the great World War, I am writing to protest against your eulogy of the Australian radical, Harry Bridges, particularly in view of the inaccuracies contained in the article in question [TIME, July 19]. Real Americans are interested in ridding this country of alien agitators who impose upon our hospitality and who attempt to destroy the very government under which they live and have their being, and yet we find a national publication doing much to offset our own activities and to place upon...
MUCH OBLIGED FOR KIND REVIEW NORTHWEST PASSAGE [TIME, July 5] BUT WILL ALSO NEED WHOLESALE RATES ON BOMBPROOF SHELTERS UNLESS I CAN PERSUADE YOU TO SPEAK A FEW MORE WORDS IN MY BEHALF TO OUTRAGED HISTORIANS. YOU QUOTED ME AS SAYING NO COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF ANYTHING COULD BE OBTAINED FROM ANY ONE OR ANY TEN HISTORIES. I WILL BE DODGING SNIPERS THE REST OF MY LIFE UNLESS YOU EXPLAIN THAT THIS REMARK WHEN CARELESSLY EMITTED IN A PERSONAL LETTER TWO YEARS AGO APPLIED SPECIFICALLY TO THE BURGOYNE CAMPAIGNS OF 1776 AND 1777. ALSO OBLIGED TO DISCLAIM DEVELOPING GREAT IDEA...