Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roger N. Baldwin '05 spoke on the same subject in behalf of the American League Against War and Fascism. The other two speakers gradually desconded into a discussion as to whose fault it was that Communism and Socialism had never been able to agree on a united front, while Mr. Baldwin remained neutral, only committing himself so far as to say that his Communist brethren might sometimes be mildly characterized as irritating...
When this prospect began to dawn on the Legion it took only the spectacle of a Government dispensing billions in the name of Recovery to line up a large mass of its membership in behalf of total remission of interest on all Bonus loans- a proposition Government actuaries estimate would cost the Treasury an additional billion dollars...
...director produced a testimonial from Henry L. Mencken: "The pedagogs now have all the time they can fill profitably-and more. Their programs are puerile and dull. There is no evidence that they would do any better if they had all day." Most notable witness of the week in behalf of more Education...
...regard the unsociable defendant, who probably did not fight for the Stars and Bars, with a jaundiced eye. Judge Priest turns the tables in masterful fashion. While the strains of "Dixie" are wafted into the hushed courtroom, the parson, (Henry B. Walthall) comes forward as character witness on behalf of the defendant. The resulting climax will cause Guiseppe Vespucci, of South Boston, to rise tearful from his seat and give the rebel yell...
...abandoned ship. The Inquirer, combined with what is left of the Public Ledger, will be taken in tow again by the Elversons as salvage for the notes which profits evidently did not pay off. On his way from France was Raymond Patenôtre, to take possession on behalf of his mother...