Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston, New York, Chicago, businessmen's groups and chambers of commerce memorialized the President in behalf of hard money...
...Senator Logan. "There is not one line of a charge against Senator Overton with the U. S. Senate yet," he recalled. Senator-reject Broussard, whose accusations had been filed with the Senate committee, although he had not formally contested the election, was advised that charges should be brought "on behalf of the people of Louisiana" to the Senate. The widespread belief that the none-too-courageous Senate committee, in the face of overwhelming evidence of political wrongdoing, was foxily preparing a technical "out" for itself stirred up equally widespread resentment and rage in Louisiana. Last week Senator Long...
Such an empty chair, thus illuminated, was to stand next to that of Toastmaster John Huston Finley at a large but frugal dinner in Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt this week. Throughout the land were to be other empty chairs at other dinners in behalf of Golden Rule Week. Their purpose is to put people in a mood for charity...
...position in the piano industry* is the function, all unadvertised, which Henry Junge exercises in Washington. Presidents, unlike kings, may not favor any one commercial house but the White House has to have a piano and in 1902 when Theodore Roosevelt accepted the $18,000 Steinway Gold Grand "in behalf of the nation," the die was cast. White House musicales began soon after. Mrs. Taft, who taught at the Cincinnati College of Music before she married, asked the Steinways to put them on. They looked around their office for some one both musical and businesslike who would not attempt...
...Professor Felix Frankfurter, a smooth-browed young man named David Eli Lilienthal has spent most of ten years defending the public in Illinois and Wisconsin from the ogre of privately-owned utilities. The consuming public had been consistently appreciative of Mr. Lilienthal's efforts in its behalf until last month in Birmingham...