Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week pardoned by President Coolidge for a murder for which he was convicted in Alaska in 1905. Mr. Perovich attracted attention in 1909 by protesting that his constitutional rights had been violated when President Taft commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. In 1925 a Kansas district court upheld Mr. Perovich's protest, so he was released under a habeas corpus writ and became an active barber. But, last June, the U. S. Supreme Court upheld onetime President Taft in considering the life sentence more merciful than the death sentence (TIME, June 13). Only President Coolidge remained...
...Government that the Chamber is going to vote, but for or against the budget of France. . . ." The Deputies, perhaps moved by M. Poincare's words and certainly influenced by the fact that they were in a hurry to disperse for their summer vacation, voted the budget unchanged and upheld the Government by a vote of 347 to 200. Notable was the small number of abstentions, 33, out of a house totaling 580. The large vote seemed positive evidence that M. Poincaré's appeal had been seriously heeded by politicians often selfish and scatterbrained...
After her conviction, Miss Whitney refused to petition for a pardon maintaining that such an act would be an admission of a guilt which she did not feel. Friends, however, carried her case to the U. S. Supreme Court which last May (TIME, May 23) upheld the constitutionality of the Syndicalism Act. Miss Whitney, now 60 years old, prepared to serve her sentence, said that in comparison with Sacco & Vanzetti, she had little cause for complaint...
...Capital is still where a plump forefinger placed it; and last week His Majesty's Governor General, Viscount Willingdon, fittingly upheld there the dignity of the Crown by presiding over a series of Diamond Jubilee ceremonies lasting, on the principal day, from before noon until after midnight. Most impressive was the maiden ringing of a huge, sweetly toned new carillon from the Tower of the Canadian Parliament. As the bells pealed, their reverberations spread throughout the Dominion upon a network of repeatedly amplified radio waves...
...Toribio Tijerīno, onetime Nicaraguan Consul General at New York, recalled last week to Manhattan newsgatherers the fl, 1,000,000 loan negotiated between the present Nicaraguan Government (upheld by U. S. marines) and the Manhattan firms of J. &. W. Seligman & Co., and the Guaranty Trust Co. (TIME, May 16). Said Señor Tijerīno: "The loan contract was entered into with the knowledge and approval of the State Department of the United States...