Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the seething has been on Dr. Van Waters' behalf. When Commissioner McDowell announced on December 27 that he was going to fire her, public sentiment mounted quickly and burst forth in the open hearings held before McDowell in the State House from January 13 to February 8. Most of the spectators were strong Van Waters partisans and didn't try to suppress their feelings, it looked to them as though the case was a shameless example of political muggery, for the defendant had a long and brilliant record in reformatory work; she was internationally famous for progressive techniques...
...award "for important contributions to civil rights" was made to football manager Frank S. Jones '50, who accepted the award on behalf of the football team and managerial corps, at a "Freedom Parade" program in Carnegie Hall in New York last Sunday night. Jones was confined to Stillman with a virus infection but acknowledged the award by telegram...
Last summer, Oliva Paz took time off and went to the U.S. on an official mission to buy cars for top brass. In Washington, he saw President Harry Truman, presented him with a handsome gold encrusted bombilla (the gourd from which maté is drunk) on behalf of Perón. When he got back to Buenos Aires, Oliva Paz found Perón's mouth in worse shape than ever. The effects of a bad case of pyorrhea were beginning to show. He lanced the gums, then Perón demanded a specialist...
Another Lewis "first," along with two other Negroes, was his admission to the American Bar Association in 1911. At that time the executive committee of the association attempted to cancel the memberships of the three Negroes and a heated dispute resulted in which prominent attorneys led the fight on behalf of Lewis. Although Lewis' membership was not rescinded, until 1943 no other Negro was admitted to the American Bar Association...
...organized a slum clearance campaign and wangled federal funds for three major housing projects. He started a church for poor people in a vacant store. Then he began to crusade for a hospital for the poor. He persuaded Mrs. Roosevelt to make a special trip to Phoenix on behalf of the project, and in 1943 the 232-bed St. Monica's Hospital was built, at a cost of more than $500,000. Father McLoughlin served as superintendent. He was also chairman of the Phoenix Housing Authority and secretary of the state Board of Health...