Word: behest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Venezuela gnarled, 74-year-old General Juan Vicente Gomez is still IT. By a freak Constitutional amendment (passed at his behest) he is Commander-in-Chief of the Army and is not responsible to the President of Venezuela. Presumably by General Gomez' order last week the Venezuelan Congress demanded, received and accepted by unanimous vote the resignation of President Juan Bautista Perez, elected only two years ago for a seven-year term...
...Lucas of the Republican National Committee had sent propaganda into Nebraska in October advocating the defeat of Republican Senator George William Norris. In spite of the fact that Chairman Simeon D. Fess had promised support for all Republican candidates ''without exception," Secretary Lucas testified that-at the behest of Nebraska regulars who have long opposed Insurgent Norris-he had spent $4,000 of his own money in having a cartoon, a circular letter and a pamphlet of anti-Norris editorials disseminated throughout the state. Senator Nye had previously pried out the facts in the printing plant of Charles...
...official guest. Marguerite Beery, wife of Cinemactor Noah Beery, who last fortnight disappeared from the Beery ranch near North Hollywood, turned up at the home of Los Angeles friends, telephoned her husband that she was safe & well. Declared Cinemactor Beery who had called in the police at the behest of worried Noah Jr., 17: "I want the proper authorities to in- vestigate this matter and prosecute anyone guilty of enticing or luring Mrs. Beery from her home. ... If there was a man involved in the affair, I might lose my temper. Mrs. Beery is a sick woman and has been...
...lyre of the Empire with greater else than some of his predecessors. The late Robert Bridges often refused to sing; may his successor follow the same path. There are more things for a Laureate to do than merely to chirp either at the royal or even the national behest. The position is as much one of honor as a lease upon his genius, and should it deprive us of the vigorous Masefield, and give us a patriotic poet in his place, the loss would be greater than the world can afford. Let Reynard the Fox still run in the forest...
Baldwin: "I have no intention of resigning as leader of the Conservative Party at the behest of Rothermere (who wants the post himself). . . . Lord Rothermere proved a failure in the two Ministerial posts he held during the War (Director General of Army Clothing Department and Air Minister...