Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your feelings." It came from Walter A. Strong, general manager of the Chicago Daily News whose late owner, Victor F. Lawson, left the paper to be sold that the proceeds might be given to Congregational Church works (TIME, Jan. 4). Mr. Strong and his associates have good reason to sustain sympathetic understanding of the feelings of men who stood recently in danger of being deprived of all interest in an enterprise to which they had given the best energies of their lives, or else of being, in Arthur Brisbane's phrase, "sold with the plantation." For Colonel Nelson...
Sixty per cent of the electorate abstained from voting. Thirty-five per cent (14,889,703) voted for "confiscation without compensation." That was not enough. Twenty million votes were required by law to sustain the plebiscite. Five per cent of the voters (542,311) strode to the polls and gratuitously expressed their opposition to confiscation in any form, though their votes had no immediate bearing upon the referendum...
...uniform practice of the Yale University Athletic Association is to sustain all decisions, by the Faculties concerned, relative to the scholastic standing and the conduct of students who are candidates for athletic teams...
...Most High sustain...
...years ago, the Vice-President of the United States founded an organization of modern "Minute Men." A short time after the formation of this order the same Vice-President, as presiding officer of the Senate, was a few seconds late when his vote was needed to sustain the administration on an important question. The authors of the song, E. F. Clark '28, E. F. Craig '16, and J. O. Whedon '27, drew their inspiration for this incident...