Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That President Roosevelt fears Little Rock may no longer be Gibraltar for his No. 1 Senate wheelhorse appeared last week when it was revealed that the President's forthcoming Western trip would include a stop at Little Rock for a speech in Senator Robinson's behalf...
...behalf of the Senate's lobby investigation, Senator Hugo La Fayette Black last week diligently plied a spade in his dirt pile, "big enough to keep 20 committees busy." Almost equally diligent was Chairman O'Connor of the House Rules Committee, bent on a similar investigation. Some spadefuls they turned...
...Samuel, with or without malice toward Mr. Eden, accepted on behalf of His Majesty's Government a suggestion thrown out in debate by Liberal Leader Sir Herbert Samuel that Britain and France join in guaranteeing Italian territory against aggression by Ethiopia. This cynical suggestion, and Sir Herbert frankly admitted his cynicism, was taken up by Sir Samuel as a means of calling Il Duce's bluff that Italy is proceeding in ''self-defense" against Ethiopia instead of in pure aggression. After calling Sir Herbert's suggestion "most interesting" and promising to transmit it to Geneva...
...promise on behalf of the Government," said he, "to give your demands the most earnest study." At this the 50,000 farmers dispersed to their homes but their spokesman declared: "We'll be back soon enough, if Stauning doesn't do what's right!" That there was no violence last week in the Royal Palace square was due largely to the Farmers' Association which appealed to city folk: "Go down to the street, find a farmer, and invite him to spend the night with you!" Response was so wholehearted that all 50,000 farmers had been...
Since no Federal statute governs the claims which cinema producers may make for their efforts, these statements which appeared last week on behalf of Dante's Inferno were legally permissible though they had little or nothing to do with the actual contents of the picture. Dante's Inferno is not only not about Hell but it also has no connection with Dante, save for the fact that a subsidiary character owns a copy of that Italian's works. It is, on the contrary, a modern morality play showing how a carnival concessionaire (Spencer Tracy) works...