Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plump, powdered and behatted, she briskly interrupted Chairman Sam Rayburn's introduction of Barkley, took over the microphone. On behalf of the Allied Florists of Philadelphia, she announced, she wanted to present President Truman with a large Liberty Bell made of flowers. Then, from beneath the bell came a shower of white pigeons (placed there by the florists' pressagent, who had billed them as "doves of peace...
...wail. If he had not comprehended it before, Eisenhower may finally have understood the role they wanted him to play. At week's end he answered them in a soldier's blunt language. He asked to be spared the "acute embarrassment" of any further moves on his behalf. He said what he might have said months ago; "No matter under what terms, conditions or premises a proposal might be couched, I would refuse to accept the nomination." That, finally, ended...
...last week came evidence of other Socialist concern with the evidences of death. The Associated Press reported that Socialist Dr. Jean Huet had told the General Council of the Seine Department that as many as 8,000 persons might be buried alive by mistake every year. "He recommended on behalf of the Socialist Party," said the A.P., "that more modern methods of determining death be required...
...delegate-hunting, he told reporters, but his supporters were sending out circulars in his behalf. He had no second choice for the nomination, and California's 53 delegates had assured him that they had no second choice either...
...Francis of Assisi sent a group of his Friars Minor to the Holy Land in 1217. When the Crusaders left Palestine, the Franciscans stayed behind, to guard the Christian shrines. In 1342 Pope Clement VI confirmed them as official guardians of the Holy Places on behalf of the Roman Catholic world.† Last week they sent out a call for help...