Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Marie Antoinette was the Dauphine of France she took one of her rare determined stands on behalf of Composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. Gluck had been her singing master in Vienna and when he wanted to produce a new opera in Paris she saw that he had his way. Last week, when it was 163 years old, Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide was given its U.S. première by the Philadelphia Orchestra in Philadelphia...
...benefit of destitute mining families in West Virginia and in behalf of Selby Shoe Co. (Styl-Eez, Tru-Poise and Arch-Preserver), last week at Syracuse Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt delivered the first of ten weekly broadcasts at $4,000 per broadcast. Subject: "A Typical Day in the White House." Facts now known about the busy First Lady's matutinal activities...
...Clay Williams first went up from North Carolina to deal with the New Deal on behalf of the tobacco business. He was a powerfully-formed, slow-spoken man of Scotch-Irish ancestry, born in Iredell County, part of Representative Bob Doughton's Congressional district. As a young lawyer he was picked by the late Richard J. Reynolds and brought up in the tradition of the company that makes Camels: a company in which every director is a salaried officer and gets down to the plant in the morning at the same hour as the men. That tradition does...
...behalf of the A. F. of L. teamsters', chauffeurs' and stablemen's union, last week hoary President Daniel J. Tobin presented James Aloysius Farley with a check for $1,000 to be used by the Democratic Party "as a mark of appreciation of what the Roosevelt Administration has accomplished for Labor." Labor's gift to the Democratic Party came at an odd time, for Mr. Tobin's boss, William Green, and Mr. Farley's boss, Franklin Roosevelt, had come politely but perilously near the parting of the ways...
...Jewish," said the oldtime cinemactress brightly in Berlin. "The whole world knows I am Catholic. I am highly flattered that the Realmleader has intervened personally in my behalf. He must be a very brilliant...