Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conference Thursday night at Phillips Brooks House, in which students and other persons connected with the University participated, it was decided that definite action would be taken in behalf of the prisoners arrested last June in Harvard Square. All the prisoners were charged with speaking without permit and with disturbance of the peace, although, as the committee claims. "Some of them did not speak and the demonstration was so orderly that if continued for more than half an hour until the police interrupted...
...these mixed assets were a liability. And even the success of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 was due more to a fortuitous combination of these heterogeneous elements against Herbert Hoover and three years of Depression than to any real fusion of the various things that pass for Democracy in behalf of the winning candidate...
...Senator then rushed off to Baton Rouge to address a pep meeting in behalf of his political football team, Louisiana State University. The team was getting ready to trounce George Washington University in Washington, 6-to-0. In its absence, "Kingfish" Long proclaimed that the rally constituted a parish meeting, solemnly had Right Halfback Abe Mickal elected State Senator...
...seven demonstrators were permitted a second hearing after petitions bearing the signatures of over 1700 persons and asking for revocation of the sentences, had been circulated on their behalf...
...Follette, Nebraska's Norris. The A. F. of L. endorsed and Albert Bacon Fall called him '"unbeatable." Yet last week Senator Cutting was beaten by Democrat Dennis Chavez. Strangely enough, Senator-elect Chavez could thank in no small measure for his success the efforts in his behalf of the tall greying daughter of the late great Republican Boss Mark Hanna. Outdone with Senator Cutting's radical insurgency, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, a thoroughgoing Republican, crossed party lines to back Democrat Chavez...