Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belisha & Co. is Leslie Thomas, son of dumpy James Henry Thomas, Britain's Secretary of State for the Colonies. One of the first facts discovered about last month's Budget-leak scandal was that Belisha & Co. had taken out $20,000 worth of income tax insurance on behalf of an advertising agent named Alfred Bates. Alfred Bates was one of Jim Thomas' most intimate friends. Another Thomas intimate is Sir Alfred Butt, Conservative M. P., theatrical producer and insurance underwriter. Sir Alfred had bet heavily against a rise in the income tax, only to hedge...
Among certain pious and ingrained orthodox Jews exists a belief that rabbis, closer to God than ordinary people, may obtain spiritual benefits on behalf of the sick or the troubled. Such Jews also believe that benefit may be derived from performing a good deed or mitzvah, such as giving money to charity. In Brooklyn, N. Y. last week one Anna Seigel went to the police with a story of how she had paid $200 as a mitzvah for her paralyzed daughter and was now wondering if she had been swindled. Upon investigation of Mrs. Seigel's complaint the Brooklyn...
...time he gave his assurances to Mr. Cooper and the Federal Comptroller he had consulted only a few of the banks. There was no explicit agreement with them to supply money for Harriman deficits. Moreover, Banker McCain knew he had no authority to guarantee the bank deposits on their behalf...
...champion of the Great American Farmer, Mr. Wallace has done more than his share. In the field of agricultural economics, his contributions in the matter of crop-yield forecasts and long range price-level predictions head the long list of his accomplishments and efforts in behalf of the famer...
...first Speller as a Yankee privateer against the King's English: "I have too much pride to stand indebted to Great Britain for books to learn our children the letters of the alphabet." A good salesman, he toured the U. S. lecturing in his book's behalf, trying-to rouse the State legislatures to protect this home growth by copyright. The book caught on, in spite of a frontispiece of Webster resembling a porcupine, which a hostile reviewer said would frighten even a patriotic child...