Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia." The pain fulness of that scene was only erased that afternoon by the excitement of picking a convention city in which fo renominate Franklin Roosevelt. A sporting atmosphere was introduced right at the start by canny William Gibbs McAdoo. Speaking in behalf of San Francisco, California's Democratic Senator inquired of Boss Farley: "Is this going to be a poker game or a straight...
Britain authorized Sir Sidney Barton, His Majesty's Minister at Addis Ababa, to act on behalf of the Swedish Government (which has no representative in Ethiopia) and demand an official report from the Emperor...
...murky obscurity and carried his country with him up & up into brilliant focus before a pop-eyed world. But for the hidden astuteness of this man, there would not now be the possibility of another world war arising out of idealism generated around the League of Nations in behalf of Ethiopia. But for His Majesty Haile Selassie the year 1935 would have been a distinctly different year. If by some unhappy chance the Italo-Ethiopian war should now spread into a world conflagration. Power of Trinity I, the King of Kings, the Conquering Lion of Judah, will have a place...
...There followed one of those remarkable scenes in which the Realmleader, as Napoleon occasionally used to do, flies into a tremendous passion, smiting his desk and screaming. Effective, this answered, with a negative more convincing than a calm man could have uttered, Sir Eric's question on behalf of His Majesty's Government as to whether Germany would care to enter an international air armament reduction treaty...
...retired from Congres but turned up frequently in Washington as a lobbyist for the glove industry. Especially in 1922, when he got the duty on cotton gloves upped 15%, Mr. Littauer deemed his tariff lobbying a public service on behalf of his neighbors and business associates...