Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scheduled to speak in behalf of his Christian Nationalist crusade, Smith was booed out of the ball--after an hour of trying to start his address--by the Youth Council supporters, who called Smith a Fascist and later approved a resolution condemming him for "stirring up racial and religious hatreds...
Secretary Patterson was testifying in Washington on behalf of the so-called Truman plan to standardize hemisphere arms out of U.S. arsenals. The U.S. Army & Navy had marshaled their biggest brass to get the bill passed before the Rio conference opens, presumably next month...
...slightly hollow echo, and so did talk of a third party. Though the Wallace name had been wildly cheered everywhere, the Wallace words had been greeted with only perfunctory applause. The listeners who arrived in high enthusiasm had gone away as troubled as before. His loud cries "in behalf of the common man"; "stop the rush to war" did not stand analysis, and they continued to ring true only to the devout...
...First Marshal, Thomas L. P. O'Donnell '47 presented the Senior Class colors to Richard W. Kimball '50 and Paul J. Douglas '50, who received the banner in behalf of the Freshman Class. O'Donnell later paid an extemporaneous tribute to retiring Dean Hanford. The University Band provided the musical background, and the ceremonies ended with the singing of the Class Ode, which was composed by Harold C. Fleming '44, of Atlanta, Georgia...
...House of Commons last week brisk Brigadier Ralph Rayner, a Tory, made an eloquent plea to Food Minister John Strachey. All that he asked on behalf of his constituents in the tiny Devonshire village of Kingsteignton was one ram. Each spring for many centuries (no one knew exactly when it began) the villagers celebrated a legendary pagan rite: they thanked the gods for their spring water by sacrificing a ram. Then they drank and danced, roasted the ram and feasted on the mutton. Rayner pleaded: "Is the Minister aware . . . that it is very unlucky to interfere with customs and traditions...