Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long and friendly letter. But it added up to a brush-off: the State Department had reason to believe that Eisler was a Communist; visas could not be given to Communists ; the U.S. consul general at Havana would listen to whatever evidence Eisler could present on his own behalf, but the law would have to be followed...
...Harvard Youth for Democracy, Students for Democratic Action, the Harvard Liberal Union, and the Radcliffe League for Democracy, who attended a reception in honor of Robert Kenney, National Co-Chairman of PCA, agreed that "there is no need for another political organization but there is used for work on behalf of the liberal movement...
...solidify the NSA structure at its very base. They must tread softly; the method at the outset may well be a fact-finding survey showing the state of student self-rule across the nation. A more peppery issue: that of "student rights" to free expression and free enterprise in behalf of political belief (no matter how unpopular at the hour). The NSA uncompromisingly supported the right of such groups as AYD to exist with official recognition so long as they meet standard local extracurricular requirements. On the question of discrimination in professional training and quota systems in undergraduate schools...
...Bethesda, Md., delivered to convalescing Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King at the Naval Hospital was the special gold medal authorized last year by Congress "on behalf of a grateful nation." The back of the medal bore a muscular charioteer with three plunging horses, the front side a rock-solid, very nautical admiral...
This is all so very nice, in fact, that Mother is a trifle weak on dramatic interest. Audience tears are jerked-or jerked at, anyhow-on behalf of the dear, dead days of the two-a-day. More tears are tried for when the two little girls, lonely for their touring parents, turn up for Christmas and are entertained by the whole troupe. Some tension develops when the older daughter (Mona Freeman) falls in love with an adolescent socialite and becomes embarrassed about her cheerfully gaudy parents. But Father & Mother are so thoroughly kind and understanding that no harm...