Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's behalf it could be said that he sincerely believes that he is better qualified to conduct the Government at this critical time than his opponent. As a matter of personal pride in his own ability and reward for his honest efforts, no man ever more ardently wanted to be re-elected to office than he, and no hard-working President ever faced a gloomier prospect for such a reward...
...Secretary of War on the platform is to sit a man with a shaggy white mane who is running for Freeholder of Essex County.† After Mr. Baker has warmed himself up on the Roosevelt-Garner ticket, he is to unleash all his eloquence as a partisan advocate in behalf of this local candidate, who happens to be his older brother Frank...
...Editor this letter is sent to you with the deepest and sincerest thanks for what you have said in behalf of the Bonus Army-the World War Veterans-there is a saying no one has ever returned from Heaven or Hell to tell us how either place is managed. The Heaven part I'll agree is true-but I'll debate with anyone "about no one ever returning from Hell" as I believe those who returned from (no mans land) and other war fronts of the World War really returned from Hell. And if those boys who were...
...could not ask for votes in their own right. All their warm words failed to bring to life the silent, remote figure in Washington. Now, barely a month before the election and with the political tide running against him, he at last took the stump in his own behalf. As he crossed the line into his native Iowa, he thawed to the welcome of friends, recalled the old swimming hole of his childhood, greeted his old schoolmarm (see p. 29). As he journeyed back to Washington he lashed out with new spunk and spirit at his opponents...
...they dare make this enormous addition to the cost of medicine essential to the health of our poorest children? But there it stands on the records of Ottawa, signed in behalf of this country by Stanley Baldwin...