Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stoneham yesterday afternoon, he unwittingly inaugurated a new program of cooperation between the University and its immediate territorial neighbors. This was the first of a series of speeches to be made by members of Harvard's public-speaking classes to various high school, church, and teachers groups in behalf of the current Community Fund drive...
Public speaking has thus joined the various English composition courses in providing vocational training for their more promoting students. Just as the "Advocate" and the "Monthly" provide a practical outlet for the talents of budding authors, so does speaking in behalf of the Community Fund give invaluable aid to aspiring orators...
...attack Harry Hopkins' WPAdministration except to call Deputy Administrator Aubrey Williams' famed "Keep your friends in power" speech "unfortunate." The election of no Senator was impugned and Senators Barkley of Kentucky and Stewart of Tennessee were described as ignorant of the WPA pressurizing in their behalf...
...certain Clivedenites Lindbergh reputedly delivered his reputedly damaging remarks on the Russian Air Force which reputedly scared the British Government out of sticking up for Czechoslovakia. The "Cliveden Set" became a synonym for a sort of Fifth Column working on behalf of Germany behind the back of the British Government. Last week the Hostess of Cliveden did her best to convince a Manhattan sob sister that this conception was all wrong...
WASHINGTON Officials close to J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, denied on his behalf tonight published reports that he will soon resign. They said the reports are "without foundation in fact...