Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vidmer decried Mr. Mahoney's objections, drew a two-column letter of protest from Editor Isaac Landman of the American Hebrew. The New York Post polled 35 members of the Olympic Committee, found 28 for participation, four against, three noncommittal. In Oakland, Calif., Fencer Helene Mayer, in whose behalf Mr. Sherrill had gone to Germany, said she had received no invitation to compete for Germany. In Chicago, Chairman Brundage of the American Olympic Committee made the sweeping statement which he had been threatening since the conflagration started. Said...
...craning about the small group of men seated before the block. In that group were representatives of the bankers who bid to protect themselves. At a tall desk with clerks and calculating machines stood Col. Leonard P. Ayres, Cleveland Trust Co.'s vice president-economist who bid in behalf of Mid-American Corp., especially chartered last week as the new top Van Sweringen holding company. Morgan Partner George Whitney was there with Morgan lawyers. Conspicuously absent was old bush-bearded Leonor Fresnel Loree, who has been built up in the Press as a likely Van Sweringen rival. And toward...
...Commuters' Center in Dudley Hall had its formal opening last night with a well-attended Smoker in the lounge. Joseph R. Hamlen '04 gave the christening speech in which he declared the Center formally open, and commended its use to the student audience. Hamlen spoke on behalf of the Graduate Committee in charge of the project...
...when he was scheduled to appear on a platform in the college quad with two other students. They were going to tell just why they thought Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Howard Taft should be the next president. In this exercise in civics, John B. was to speak in behalf of President Taft. He walked in gave his speech; then locked the others out of the hall. Taft lost St. Louis, Missouri, and the election. In 1913, the next year, however, John B. was graduated with honors from St. Louis University...
Japan's further activities in its Allies' behalf were chiefly two: 1) supplying textiles; 2) taking away their Eastern markets. From having an adverse trade balance in 1914 Japan suddenly found herself piling up the fantastic Wartime export surplus of 2-) billion yen ($1,246.000,000). Shipping receipts rose from 43,000,000 yen in 1914 to nearly...