Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus is an ancient institution once more upheld after being tested in the fire of the footlights. On the whole, Author Shipman puts in several good words for marriage. His development is badly warped toward the end, at times stopping short of good burlesque. His dialogue is strained; his labored paradoxes seem to have been ground out by someone just learning English. But an exceptional cast endows the play...
...three days the opposition assaulted him continuously in the Chamber. Herriot, radical leader; Blanc, communist, and Forgeot, follower of Clemenceau, led the attack, declaring that the Ruhr policy was fruitless, a dead loss. At last Poincare grew testy. He demanded a vote and was upheld...
...early days of the Russian revolution, Rumanian troops seized the province, which lies to the east of Rumania and is washed by the mouths of the Danube. This seizure had no justification in international law, as the Rumanians were not at war with the Soviets. But it was upheld by Great Britain and France in the recently ratified Paris pact of October, 1920. Red Russia never recognized that Rumania had any claim on the territory...
Lloyd George following Mr. MacDonald, upheld the value of an Anglo-French military pact. "Since when has the word of this country been useless for the protection of another country without the details being given of the force whereby it is backed?" he asked heatedly. The former Premier complained that Mr. MacDonald's policy was nebulous; he twitted the Labor Government with failure to protest against French intentions to make the Ruhr occupation permanent; he gave warning that the Franco-Prussian industrial agreements were operating to the detriment of Great Britain...
...attacked in the courts on two grounds: 1) it would deprive parents of constitutional rights; 2) it would destroy the property of the schools "without due process of law." The court upheld these contentions...