Word: behest
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week U. S. art, for all the world like a defense industry, poured its output on the nation. It did so at President Roosevelt's behest. "It is evident that we must find ways of translating our interest in American creative expression into active popular support expressed in terms of purchase." So he wrote three months ago to Francis Henry Taylor, director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, asking him to head a council for a nationwide celebration of Art Week. Gathering 147 National Council members from every corner of the country, Director Taylor laid plans...
...which he was hustled last month. Christian Kagawa said he would spend the rest of his life tending tuberculous Japanese on pine-studded, golden-beached Toyoshima, one of the "dream islands" of Japan's Inland Sea. Louder than his words was the obvious inference that, at the behest of Japan's New Order in East Asia, he had abandoned militant Christianity for politically innocuous social service...
...example of disheartening delay, Mr. Stettinius wrathfully cited an incident which also exemplified the new mutual attitude of U. S. Government and Business. One of the commission's prime concerns is aluminum, which aircraft makers will need in stupendous quantities. At the urgent behest of Messrs. Stettinius & Knudsen, the House last week was asked to appropriate $25,000,000 for a new TVA dam, wherewith to supply the Aluminum Co. of America with critically needed power. Up popped Republican anti-TVA Congressman McLean of New Jersey, Republican Congressman Dirksen of Illinois, blocked the appropriation. They were unmoved by assurances...
Pianist Casadesus, an able concert artist, was touring the U. S. at the behest of the French Government when Beatrice Sendler, president of the Fontainebleau alumni association, thought of forming a Fontainebleau piano class. A friend, John Frothingham, persuaded his old school, St. George's in Newport, to lend its buildings. For piano classes with M. and Mme Casadesus, and French diction under Mme Marthe Pillois (widow of a minor French composer), the transplanted Fontainebleau conservatory signed up 25 students, most of them Fontainebleau alumni. Two talented newcomers were Dominican nuns, Sister Ignatia and Sister M. Louisita...
...Syria, reputedly at the behest of his predecessor, General Maxime Weygand, Commander in Chief Eugene Mittelhausser of France's Army of the Near East likewise first denounced, then honored the Petain armistices. This announcement affected the actions of a dozen French warships, including at least three battleships still with the British at Alexandria. The attitudes of the commanders of these French ships remained unknown, but farther east, French surrender of Djibouti to the Italians gravely endangered British control of the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, far gate...