Word: behest
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Aliens and allied U.S speculators had gobbled up 35% of Sun Life's stock. Out to Sun Life's Canadian stockholders went frantic telephone pleas from company officers not to sell, to "keep this fine old Canadian company Canadian." At the Dominion Insurance Office's behest, Canadian Finance Minister Douglas Abbott took one step to repel the invaders. He announced last fortnight that he would sponsor a bill to "freeze" Canadian insurance companies' dividend-payment policies...
Vyacheslav Molotov made a quick trip last week to Prague. At his behest, the Foreign Ministers of Russia's seven East European satellites were on hand to confer with him. There was good reason to believe that the Soviet Deputy Premier had a communiqué all ready in his pocket for the lesser comrades to initial...
Afterwards, the pair met the press. Said Baritone Robeson: "Yugoslavia has tied itself firmly to the capitalist camp which, at the behest of the Du Fonts and Wall Street, is preparing for a new war." He accused Rogge of being a paid agent of Tito...