Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend, rich young "Bill" Bullitt, would go to Moscow as first U. S. Ambassador to the U. S. S. R. Recognition and appointment were a consummation for which Philadelphia's Bullitt had yearned and worked with increasing ardor ever since he went from the Peace Commission, supposedly on behalf of Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson, to confer with Lenin...
With its customary air of imparting an enormously weighty secret to an annoyingly impatient world, the New York Yacht Club last week announced, in round official style, that it had received a challenge from Britain's Royal Yacht Squadron in behalf of Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith to race for the America's Cup in the summer of 1937. What made the announcement a shade less than breathtaking, even to that microscopic minority of the sporting public which normally gets excited about the America's Cup, was that the news had been unofficially given out in England...
...past such organizations as the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, or the Tuberculosis Commission were in the habit of canvassing students for funds. The Council has made an arrangement with such organizations whereby they will not do this canvassing but will be paid by the Student Council in behalf of the student body. This saves the students from the bother of continually being asked for contributions, and further, the Council is in a position to investigate the individual charity before money is given...
...Convention would therefore be equivalent to conceding victory to John L. Lewis. But if the Executive Council suspended the C. I. O. unions, they could not get into the Convention to vote and hence their ultimate expulsion would be virtually certain. Reasonably Mr. Dubinsky offered to promise on behalf of five C. I. O. unions that they would let the issue be decided at the Convention not by the two-thirds vote, but by a simple majority. For answer 15th Vice President William D. Mahon of the street railway employes' union shortly declared that he was convinced...
...Street betting commissioner, in a radiogram to the Rex, took half the Democratic financier's bet for a client. Next a Republican who voted for Roosevelt in 1932, Le Grand Bouton Cannon of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., hastened to claim the other half of the Gerard bet on behalf of a syndicate of friends...