Word: standing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probable span allotted him for this work. Last week he expressed, through Secretary Hull, his condolences upon the death of a man who had influenced U. S. life for 17 years, a man to whom Franklin Roosevelt had lately seemed to be turning as an ally in his stand for democracy against dictatorship (TIME, Jan. 9). Congress, too, paid its respects to that man as a temporal sovereign. For the first time since 1871 Congress adjourned to honor the death of a Pope...
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins took the stand voluntarily to answer the impeachment charges brought against her by Republican Representative Thomas of New Jersey (TIME, Feb. 6). Failure to deport C. I. O.'s Harry Bridges as an alien Communist was her crime. Dressed in matronly black, with a large white bow across her bosom, Miss Perkins read to the House Judiciary Committee a lawyer-like statement explaining: "I am certainly in favor of the punishment or deportation of any one who engages in [treasonable] conduct. . . . I also wish to emphasize that I am not in accord with...
...spite of the 104-102 adverse vote administered by a strong legislative bloc in favor of the oath's retention, repealists prepared to make a last stand on Monday when the measure comes up for reconsideration in the House...
Dean Chase, who recorded Harvard's stand, admitted that College partisans would not organize a pressure group at the State House, and pointed out that Governor Saltonstall has promised he would sign a repeal bill if it passed the General Court...
Dartmouth, at present leading the Quadrangular League with two wins and no defeats, has a fast veteran squad and should provide a severe test for the Crimson. Although the Indians stand one notch below Harvard in the International League, they have a very smooth-working outfit which, according to Hanover supporters has failed to show its true potentialities in the League race...