Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failed to draw any aces from the New Deal for his employers. Therefore the carriers of the U. S. have long felt the need for a fulltime Washington spokesman, a man of power, prestige and personality who would be authorized to strike and strike hard in their behalf. Last week in Chicago's Blackstone Hotel they picked their new leader-John Jeremiah Pelley, 56, president of New York, New Haven & Hartford...
This is to acknowledge and thank you . . . for your interest in my behalf. You are correct, this is not my picture...
Well-known to Parisian socialites for his activities in behalf of impoverished Emigres in Paris, dapper Prince Youssoupov is no stranger to the courts. In 1925 he lost a suit against Joseph P. Widener for $500,000 worth of pictures which he was under the impression that Mr. Widener had accepted as security for a loan. But for the occasion which prompted last week's dinner party the Princess Irina owed less to her husband's testimony on the stand than to her lawyer, bright-lipped, buxom Fanny Holtzmann...
...daughters. When she went into the June primary campaign as her husband's stumpster she weighed 120 lb. and when she came out, she weighed 100 lb. After a rest-up during which she hopes to regain some flesh, Nominee Lydia Langer will start campaigning in her own behalf...
...original order for a rate reduction was entered in 1923, but Illinois Bell promptly obtained an injunction. The case was not brought to trial until 1927. The City of Chicago in behalf of subscribers retained a bright young lawyer named Benjamin F. Goldstein, legislative investigator of the Armour Grain scandal, who had prowled through the books of the telephone company for a minority stockholder. Mr. Goldstein, then 34, suggested that two other experienced lawyers were also needed. George Ives Haight, a gruff, strapping patent attorney and his partner, big, jovial Edmund David Alcock, joined the fight...