Word: behest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Mr. Wang." Politicians, they were getting out in advance of the coming Kuomintang (National People's Party) Congress which promises to erupt with indignation against the Government's unparalleled series of surrenders to Japan (TIME, June 17 & 24). surrenders which included dissolving at Japan's behest all locals of the Kuomintang in North China. To the Generalissimo and his brothers-in-law the squawks of the Kuomintang were of comparative indifference...
Last year Maryland Casualty Co. of Baltimore borrowed $17,500,000 from the RFC, RFChairman Jesse Jones promptly installed two government executives as vice presidents to represent RFC's interest. Last week Maryland Casualty, presumably at Jesse Jones's behest, announced the election of ten new directors, nearly all of them nationally known. Among the ten were Maryland's onetime Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie; onetime FDI Chairman Walter Joseph Cummingst now chairman of Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co.; President Ellery W, Mann of Zonite Products Corp.; Vice Chairman Samuel Clay Williams...
...Sidetracked, at the behest of Bishop James Cannon Jr., a liberal committee report on the liquor traffic, declared itself instead "unalterably opposed" to that traffic...
Evensong (Gaumont-British). Adapted from a novel by Beverley Nichols and a play by Nichols and Edward Knoblock, this picture mournfully examines the career of an opera singer (Evelyn Lave).* Irish-born Maggie O'Neill puts aside an Irish sweetheart for art's sake. At the behest of the impresario who launches her, the singer takes the name Irela. After a brilliant command performance in Vienna, she is about to run off with the Archduke Theodore when he learns his cousin Ferdinand has been assassinated in Sarajevo. Theodore marries into his own class. During the War Irela...
...even to Paul von Hindenburg was ever sworn such an oath as the Cabinet, at Adolf Hitler's behest, last week decreed all Federal ministers, State ministers and State governors must take. The Cabinet then arose and loudly swore...