Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Honorable Sir:--As president of the Society for American-Japanese Peace, I ask you, on behalf of the Japanese residents of your city to prohibit the proposed performances at the Boston Opera House of that scandalous libel on the people of Japan, "The Mikado...
...Harvard was the better team and deserves its victory. We gave everything we had and played as hard as we could but lost because the Crimson line was too powerful. On behalf of the Centre College squad I thank everybody for the royal way in which we have been treated during our stay in Boston and Cambridge...
Samuel Gompers has worked so long and so zealously on behalf of the interests of labor that he wields a great personal influence. In every union there are men who would unhesitatingly accept his decision in whatever direction he might lead. Within his proper sphere of action as president of the American Federation of Labor he usually carries the workers with him. But when he would step out of that sphere and carry them into the political arena, ranging them on the side of one party, they stop to think what would then become of their constitutional liberty to vote...
During the summer the Endowment Fund received contributions amounting to nearly $200,000. The greater part of this amount was given to the fund by Mrs. A. Hamilton Rice of Newport, R. I., on behalf of herself, her son and her daughter, who promised a gift of $50,000 from each person, or a total of $150,000. This fund is to be credited to the Endowment Fund, but is to be held apart as a special fund, the income of which is to be devoted to the maintenance of the College Library, the building of which was presented...
...Belaunde has come to the United States in order to prepare material for a series of lectures on the United States which he is planning to deliver at the University of San Marcos this winter. Upon his arrival he presented an official salutation to President Lowell on behalf of his university. In speaking of President Lowell, Dr. Belaunde said that he was well known in Peru for his works on Government...