Word: behest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army football game comes with surprising suddenness, especially since it was only yesterday that the plans for the ceremonies were first made public. While no official information was forthcoming as to who vetoed the plans, it is generally believed that the ceremonies were given up at the behest of President Conant. Apparently the plans had not been brought to his attention until yesterday...
...ring kept up maximum Nazi pressure on Protestants in Prussia, during and after the carefully fixed church plebiscite which was "won" by the Nazi "German Christians" (TIME, July 31). Fortnight ago the church elders elected as 'Primate of Prussia" at Premier Göring's behest Nazi Army Chaplain Ludwig Müller who is Catholic Chancellor Hitler's candidate for eventual election as Reichsbischof or "Bishop of the United German Evangelical Church." Both No. 1 Nazi Hitler and No. 2 Nazi Göring like Chaplain Müller's deftness in de-Semitizing...
Driven in state to the Presidential Palace, General Sandino was asked to stay all night. President Juan Bautista Sacasa used to be a general. When he laid down his arms at the U. S.'s behest, his subordinate, Sandino, refused to do likewise, fought on, always declaring that he would stop fighting if and when the Marines were withdrawn. Before going to bed Sandino and Sacasa had a thoroughgoing talk, came to terms which they signed at midnight: 1) The undefeated Sandinistas will peacefully present their arms to the Sacasa Government within three months; 2) Sandinistas who present arms...
...variety of his interests-Railroader Leonor Fresnel Loree (see p. 45), Anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith, Physicist Albert Abraham Michelson, Sculptor Lorado Taft, Entomologist Leland Ossian Howard, Politician Sir Robert Laird Borden, Immunologist Theobald Smith. As doctor he was an internist, with digestive disorders his specialty. Last week, at the behest of Manhattan's August Holland Society, friends of the late Fenton Benedict Turck gathered to honor the posthumous publication of a book by him-Action, of the Living Cell (Macmillan...
...behest of Tennessee's Senator McKellar, himself on the public payroll for 22 years, the Civil Service Commission last week published a 1,500-page survey of jobs outside the merit system which will fall to "deserving" Democrats after March 4. The jobs ranged from Secretary of State to trackwalker on the Government's Alaska Railroad. Copies of the report, dispatched at once to President-elect Roosevelt and Democratic Chairman Farley, his patronage boss, listed some 65,000 political positions (exclusive of 15.600 appointive postmasterships)-one for every 350 men & women who voted the party ticket last November...