Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help was forthcoming, the Finns could hope only to sell their country for much Russian blood. This they were prepared to do. Cried Premier Risto Ryti in a nationwide broadcast: "The Finnish people at this moment are fully united, firm as steel and ready for the greatest sacrifices in behalf of their independence and their existence. ... If compelled to do so, we shall fight to the end-even after...
With no apologia, alibi or alias, I hereby and now register vehement protest against the harsh treatment and slurring references which you made against the fair suburb of Cicero in the Nov. 20 issue of TIME (p. 16). I do this on behalf of 70,000 residents of the town, 70,000 of the finest people in the United States of America...
What made this retort timely was that Willie Bioff had just tied Hollywood producers into knots. On behalf of 1,900* A. F. of L. studio workers, Tsar Bioff had ordered the companies to up wages 10% ($360,000 a year). Likely to be demanded later if he got this much were more raises for many more workers. If the cinemoguls refused, said Willie Bioff, he would not only strike Hollywood studios but through his close connections with unionized projectionists would close 15,000 movie houses throughout the U. S. Although...
...Ducky Pond will both be featured speakers on the broadcast. Kieran will conduct a round table consisting of such sports authorities as John Lardner, George Carens, Vic Jones, Bill Cunningham, and others. Announcer Bill Stern will also be on hand. Lemuel A. Watkins '21 will address the rally on behalf of the hosts...
...proud of being a Spaniard now that the Spanish people are fighting to save their own culture." Luis Mira, former professor at the University of Barcelona and inspector of psychiatry in the Spanish Republican Army, said at a meeting sponsored by the Teachers' Union in behalf of the Spanish Refugee Campaign...