Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heard Mrs. Ulrey sing The Penitent's Plea and Let the Lower Lights Be Burning, was vastly impressed with the quality of her voice. He saw to it that she was offered a steady radio contract at $500 per week, a chance to sing with Rudy Vallee in behalf of Fleischmann's Yeast. Volunteer Ulrey came near yielding to temptation. Last week, after due meditation, she refused all commercial offers, piously announced "My voice belongs...
...Therefore, be it resolved that this Committee, on behalf of the Freshmen who attended these reviews, does hereby thank Professors Lamb, Hocking, and Wheldon for their co-operation and Messrs. MacDougall, Kaiser, Cheedle, and Taylor, who devoted their time and energy to conduct these reviews...
...Mediterranean. Obliging M. Laval thus offered his countrymen their choice of war, and in effect dared the Chamber and Senate to say whether they prefer it to his policy of peace at Ethiopia's expense. Resolved not to fight, students of the Paris Law Faculty demonstrated in behalf of Italy and against Ethiopia's French International Law Professor Gaston Jeze (TIME, Aug. 12 & Sept. 16), with such vigor that his classes had to be canceled. Then the Law Faculty had to be closed, "until the students could insure order...
...opposed to tyrannical "Liberal" Machado. He had a plump, dazzling wife. He proceeded quietly to wangle alliances with all the Right Center "sectors," to acquire some semi-radical friends and to find a man with a much better radio voice than his to make incessant radio speeches in his behalf. A year ago it became an even bet that new Candidate Gomez would win any election against the old favorites...
...foresight, even before Mayor LaGuardia's ban went into effect, of trying a completely new expedient: election of a "Tsar," like baseball's Landis and cinema's Hays, to tell them what kind of pin-game operation is legal, to intercede with authorities on their behalf when necessary, to help prevent "racketeers" from gaining control of the industry. For Pin Tsar, the Amalgamated Operators' Association, the Greater New York Operators' Association, the Metropolitan Jobbers' Association and the Skill Games Board of Trade chose no less a personage than Major General John...