Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remarks dealt with a "deal" in which five men made $33,000,000 in a few days. She did not care to reveal their names and the Committee did not press her. Indeed, when counsel for Attorney General Daugherty attempted to secure the men's names, the Committee upheld her silence. Questioning her in regard to her reluctance to mention their names, Senator Ashurst said: "Madam, if I understand your attitude, it has been that you are not a voluntary witness, and you do not care to and neither have you assumed such an attitude?" Miss Stinson: "I would...
House of Commons. Herbert H. Asquith and David Lloyd George, leaders of the Liberal Party, made a sortie against Premier MacDonald's foreign policy. The Premier's handling of Anglo-French relations was strongly attacked, Mr. Asquith expressing dissatisfaction with the Ruhr and Rhineland questions. Mr. MacDonald upheld his belief that the League of Nations was the best instrument to limit the existing menace to world peace...
Some time in May the Republican Club hopes to hold a mock nominating convention to nominate the next presidential candidate. The only opposition to the Republican Club's unanimous choice of President Coolidge is Hiram Johnson, who is staunchly upheld by the Hiram Johnson Club. The plan can materialize only if enough of the later's supporters join the Republican Club...
From the affirmative side the question was upheld by C. T. Lane '26, Sterling Dow '25, and C. R. Brooks '26. Opposing them were Francis Birch '24, A. D. Phillips '26, and Oliver La Farge '24. Following the prepared addresses the floor remained open for discussion for the rest of the meeting...
President Gerard Swope of the latter Company countered by pointing out that its rights to its patents have been upheld in the highest courts, and that its system of distributing lamps had been followed openly for twelve years, and investigated but not complained of by the Federal Trade Commission. "The General Electric Company awaits with confidence the definitive decisions of the courts...