Word: behest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chinese women meanwhile sacrificed for Liberty their wedding rings and gold trinkets at the behest of their Premier's able wife, Radiorating Mme Chiang Kaishek. To the many earmarks, minute or mighty, of this Great War last week Shanghai actuaries added finally a careful estimate that property damage there already exceeds $750,000,000. This is three times greater than the total of losses at Shanghai caused by Japan's attack there...
...last week most of the top-flight cowboys of the North American rodeo circuit circulated around Broadway movie theatres and bars, wearing at the Garden's special behest the widest hats and brightest shirts they could buy. As contestants in what is one of the most unprofitable as well as one of the riskiest of sports, rodeo cowboys average about $3,000 a year in prize money, spend most of it on traveling expenses, clothes, entry fees, hospital bills. Few, therefore, can afford to pass up the Madison Square Garden rodeo, which offers the season's biggest total...
...charters, but recognition from Pullman was not forthcoming. President Randolph carried his case to the old Board of Mediation, to the Interstate Commerce Commission, to a Federal Court. First success came in 1934 when the Railway Labor Act was amended, outlawing company unions, guaranteeing collective bargaining and-at the behest of President Randolph-bringing porters within the scope of the law. Membership jumped, and the next year when the National Mediation Board held an election the Brotherhood beat a reorganized company union, 6,000 to 1,400. Subsequent conferences with Pullman bogged down, requiring intervention of the Mediation Board. Last...
Roosevelt: "Almost, methinks, I am reading not from Macaulay but from a resolution of the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Liberty League, the National Association of Manufacturers or the editorials written at the behest of certain well known newspaper proprietors...
...Last month the New York Legislature, at the behest of the Catholic Church which had just helped close all Manhattan burlesque shows (TIME, May 10), hastily passed a certain Dunnigan Bill. This would have empowered New York City's Commissioner of Licenses to close, singlehanded, any play he considered "immoral," padlock the theatre where it was shown. Mobilized public sentiment persuaded Governor Herbert Lehman to veto the bill last fortnight...