Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behalf of our client, the Hotel Pierre, I wish to say that they are no longer bankrupt, but were reorganized and reincorporated as of Feb. 1, 1933. Mr. Charles Pierre, as President of the new corporation, is still actively in charge of the management of the hotel. Your phrase "echoing calm" also seems untoward, as the hotel is 60% occupied...
...unnamed lawyer was the man who first tempted him. Mr. Throop confessed. The lawyer offered a $5,000 bribe in behalf of a tax-burdened firm. "I refused even to touch it," said Mr. Throop. "After that he began to cultivate me. He was very nice and subsequently he took me out several times in a motorboat. Later I took $1,500 from...
...Hitler Cabinet announced the restoration of all German orders, decorations and titles of nobility. New Nazi decorations are about to be established but they can only be bestowed by the President. Prussia will once more have a House of Peers. New Peers will be created by the Premier on behalf of the Chancellor-in other words Handsome Adolf, like Napoleon, will found his own aristocracy. The Governments of Prussia, Baden, Bavaria rescinded all Republican laws against mensuren, the bloody, rapier duels of German student corps. Wrote the Volkischer Beobachter...
...Education," said Dr. Hopkins, "does not deal with disembodied minds but with men of flesh and blood, possessed in varying degrees of mental capacities, of obscure neuroses, of emotional sensitiveness, and of spiritual aspiration. The influence of educational foundations, such as are our colleges and universities, should be in behalf of that wholeness of man which is healthfulness and which is holiness...
...Madrid last week Deputy Jiminez Asua made formal request to the Supreme Court to reopen the famed de Arrizola case of 1901 on the basis of new evidence in behalf of the plaintiff and proof of forgery presented by the defendant. Alfonso XIII. The move called world attention to a cause célèbre of 20 years ago, to ex-King Alfonso mouse-quiet in Fontainbleau and to the state of the Spanish Republic...