Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began when President Brucer, wife of an unemployed carpenter, met Arthur J. Lynch during the Presidential campaign. Mr. Lynch, then a Dry pressagent for the Business Men's Prohibition Foundation, was plying his trade in behalf of the Republican ticket. Soon Mrs. Brucer discovered that Mrs. Lynch, a volatile Frenchwoman who once was a War nurse, was not "treating Mr. Lynch right." Mrs. Brucer rented a room in a Dearborn Street boarding house for her new-found friend, fed him. In return, he helped her prepare her temperance speeches, research alcohol problems. "All the men in the Business...
...married her Oki. followed him to exile in Sardinia, where he was interned. Sardinian Sideshow is the interesting, lively, not too personal account of the year they spent there. Not being considered at first an enemy alien herself, she made a trip to Rome and besieged the authorities in behalf of her harmless husband (a painter). Sitting in anterooms, waiting for audiences, she read most of Tacitus. Unsuccessful, she returned to the sirocco, fleas, dirt and picturesque boredom of Sardinia. Like all Northerners with noses she was chiefly impressed by the smell: "A little rotten seaweed and fish, a great...
...American" idea, adapted from the "Buy British" movement-(see p. 23), have been mushrooming for the last half year. When the Saturday Evening Post featured an exhortation by Samuel George Blythe to "Buy American" early last month, the movement assumed nation-wide proportions. And last week in its behalf William Randolph Hearst turned on his big publicity machine...
Last fortnight The New Yorker printed a rimed petition to the Mayor of New York, addressed by Poet Arthur Guiterman in behalf of the City's begrimed public statues. Next issue appeared with a five-stanza reply in fluent doggerel, signed by smart little Acting Mayor Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee, Excerpt: I too had noted the condition That caused you, Sir, to make petition. I've pitied Washington and Skene, As poor white marble turned to green, And Booth and Tilden, Grant...
...28?Campaigning at Indianapolis President Hoover declares: "I consider the [Home Loan] Act was the greatest act yet undertaken by any government at any time on behalf of the thousands of owners of small homes...