Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While in general agreement with your editorial LOCKING THE BARN DOOR, I would like to take exception to certain statements. You call the Harvard petition urging the President to raise the embargo on Spain "ill-timed and misdirected" and urge Harvard men "instead of petitioning in behalf of a practically deceased Spanish Republic, to take a more constructive line...
...title your editorial "Locking the Barn Door"; you term the petition "ill-timed and misdirected;" and finally you suggest "a more constructive line" than "petitioning in behalf of a practically deceased Spanish Republic." Your attitude, in short, is that "It's too late." Let Professor Rupert Emerson answer you (I quote from his address at Ford Hall Friday evening...
...discrimination against an aggressor; so long as it continues to deny American support to the forces making for world order-and thus, by default, actually improves the position of those tending toward disorder-it will continue to endanger America's chances of living at peace. Instead of petitioning in behalf of a practically deceased Spanish Republic, it will be well for Harvard men to take a more constructive line...
...wived most of the young'uns in her time and had helped lay out most of the dead ones, too. Never been away from home but wanted like everything to come to New York, particularly to say a word or two over the radio in behalf of fat people. Her fat son had been taking a lot of joshing-people used to say that when the circus came to town they couldn't see a thing if he got there first. If Mr. Lord liked her letter, could she come in a "bedded car," and should she bring...
This plan, which if accepted would have led in time to a closed shop, was rejected in favor of immediate demands for a closed shop. The amendment, which was put forward by Mrs. Eva Ranken on behalf of the waitresses, received an overwhelming endorsement. Since University officials were known to be opposed to the closed shop, the original plan was reserved as a sugarcoated alternative...