Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this report. Observers agree that the mass hatred now raging in Morgan County is fully as pronounced as that in Jackson County which impelled the change of venue, and express serious doubts as to the safety, not only of the defendants, but of the attorneys imported in their behalf. That the Scottsboro case, or any other, case involving negroes, should be tried in a cotton belt court, is a hideous and an intolerable thing. But it is very difficult to withdraw such cases from Southern jurisdiction without calling into question the theory of sectional justice which originally places them there...
Backfire. Even Calvin Coolidge called conferences on behalf of depressed farmers. Herbert Hoover spent three-quarters of a billion dollars out of the Federal treasury trying to peg wheat and cotton, spent more millions helping farmers' co-operatives through the Farm Board in an effort to pass on to the farmers themselves the problem of marketing surpluses, raising prices, reducing acreage. Last week the oldest co-operative of all, Farmers' National Grain Dealers Association, split in two over policy, and the nation had on hand a 500,000,000 bu. surplus of corn...
...husband James, who was impeached as Governor in 1917, popped in uninvited to chat with Postmaster General Farley. The Carter v. Ferguson feud is an old one. At a football game in 1925, Amon Carter, full of high spirits, paraded back & forth behind the Fergusons' seats crowing in behalf of the man who succeeded Mrs. Ferguson after her first term as Governor: "Hooray for Dan Moody!" Jim Ferguson offered $500 to any police officer who would arrest Amon Carter. The offer was not taken up. When he found the Fergusons had horned in on a party of his last...
...Lawyer Richards the kidnapped man was forced to send a promissory note for $50,000 to be converted into cash and paid to the abductors after Berg's release. Lawyer Richards went immediately to Berg's attorney, Morris Levinson, demanded $11,000 for his proposed services on behalf of the kidnapped man-$1,000 to be paid immediately, $10,000 when Berg was released. Levinson. who felt that Richards knew altogether too much about the kidnapping, played along with him until Berg was released, then reported him to the police. Before any ransom had been paid, Richards...
...grandmother, lying on the bed waiting to die. . . . An other thing I want to tell you mothers: if you are not public speakers you'd better start taking lessons now. for you never know what some of these sons and daughters will do to make you famous." In behalf of one Ben M. Jones, film projectionist who fled a South Carolina prison