Word: behest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jobs on the State payroll but 60,000 on WPA. Candidate Petersen immediately took Mr. Christgau's part. So did Republican State Chairman W. M. Parker. So did three Democratic candidates for Governor, including U. S. District Attorney Victor Anderson, who had entered the race at the behest of James A. Farley and whose grumbling supporters could only conclude from the Christgau charges that Democrats Farley and Hopkins were working at cross purposes...
Although the 48 State constitutions generally resemble their venerable counterpart, one major difference is that most are considerably shorter-lived. Three-quarters of the State constitutions provide for conventions at the behest of their constituents, making the average age of a State constitution between 20 and 25 years. New Hampshire has had eleven constitutional conventions, Louisiana ten, New York seven. In 1894 New York's Legislature made mandatory a referendum every 20 years after 1916 on whether a convention should be called. In 1916 the voters apathetically said No. In 1936 they apathetically said Yes. So last week...
Emerald findeth no Memling Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting . . . CONTRA NATURAM They have brought whores for Eleusis Corpses are set to banquet at behest of usura...
...Stanley Reed had a thorough education at Kentucky Wesleyan College and Yale University, studied law at the University of Virginia, Columbia University, the Sorbonne in Paris. His education was polished off with four years in the Kentucky Legislature and a War-time first lieutenancy in the Army. At the behest not of Franklin Roosevelt but of Herbert Hoover he left his comfortable law practice in Maysville to go to Washington in 1929 as attorney for the Federal Farm Board...
...their pudgy President David Sarnoff sent envoys to Milan to induce Maestro Arturo Toscanini to conduct ten broadcasts with the projected NBC Symphony Orchestra (TIME, Feb. 15). Conductor Toscanini asked and got a contract for $4,000 per broadcast, probably the highest price ever paid a conductor. At the behest of plump, practical Signora Toscanini, it was also stipulated that NBC should buy the Maestro a round-trip ticket from Italy to the U. S. and pay the income taxes on his U. S. earnings (TIME...