Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this Dr. Hanfstaengl fervently replied: "Preposterous! . . . Such a remark would include the present Leader of Germany, Chancellor Adolf Hitler, who is also a Roman Catholic." The best Sir Patrick could do was to coax Putzy to admit that when Lady Listowel called upon him at Berlin in behalf of the German pacifist widely mentioned this year for the Nobel Peace Prize, Carl von Ossietzky, whom Nazis have clapped into a prison camp (TIME, Dec. 2), Dr. Hanfstaengl roared at Lady Listowel, "Ossietzky is a swine and a traitor!" Very earnestly last week Putzy testified, "I know Ossietzky is a traitor...
...colleagues have been kind enough to ask me to sign the treaty on behalf of Canada. I am hopeful it will be ready in a few days...
...stayed thin-faced big-eyed Crown Prince Asfa Wassan at the head of 10,000 well equipped warriors. Suddenly he stepped from an airplane at Addis Ababa, to be warmly greeted by his father the Emperor and hustled off to the palace. There he would rule, courtiers said, on behalf of Haile Selassie when and if the Emperor goes to the front...
Richardson, speaking in behalf of the right of imperialism, declared that the United States should not exist. For "if the affirmative follow out their arguments to a logical end, they would hand over our government to the few remaining Indians...
Services must be in behalf of the debtor Twelve banks, to which Paramount owed $14,000,000, were represented by a committee which valued its services at $50,000. The Paramount trustees were suing the banks, which they claimed had been treated as preferred creditors. Judge Coxe said that the bank committee's efforts were "adverse to the debtor," hence no allowance was justified...