Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...question under debate was worded as follows: "Resolved, That the United States should enforce that form of collective bargaining advocated by the American Federation of Labor." The Sophomores, who upheld the negative, were awarded a 2 to 1 decision, and the speeches of Phelps and Rosenblatt were given especial commendation...
...should the spirit of patriotism, so nobly upheld in war, be cast aside when the external danger threatening the nation ceases? True it is that Mr. Gary and his associates of the United States Steel Company have not been tactful in dealing with the demands of the organized steel workers. But that is hardly reason enough for the latter to strike, especially when asked to delay action by the President of the United States. Until some satisfactory arrangement can be made some of our leading statesmen tell us that there will be no peace in the world until every nation...
...must maintain the trust we have won. For after all, the future peace of the world depends primarily on the conference existing between states. No pact however perfect can eliminate war if mutual distrust is engendered. If the motives of our action in the Great War were upheld to future generations as examples to follow in all foreign dealings, the world would become educated in the difference between international right and wrong...
America is in a singularly fitting mood to observe the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The great principles of progressive civilization, which he firmly upheld during the dark days of the Civil War, are strikingly analagous to those which this nation has maintained in the war just brought to a successful conclusion. When Death cut short the full but unfinished career of Lincoln, thereby bringing loss equally to friend and foe, his plans for national reconstruction were based upon the lasting principles of "malice toward none, charity to all, firmness in the right...
...question of the equipment and training of our fighting men. The entire shipping problem comes under the head of labor. How best to get the maximum work from the laboring classes is the problem that we must solve and it is interesting to note that the anti-conscription team upheld their side. We congratulate the 1921, speakers on their victory, but it does seem as though a labor conscription policy would bring the most efficient results in spite of the opposition that the powerful Labor Party would be bound to make. Conscription is always odious, but it is the only...