Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Missionaries. Christmas spirit was, of course, zealously upheld in many a foreign land by 12,283 U. S. missionaries?8,363 in Asia, 2,160 in Latin America, 1,689 m Africa, 71 in Australia and Oceanica...
...Bukharin is a vine that must always cling somewhere, must be always upheld and maintained by someone sturdier than himself. . . . After Lenin's death, Bukharin became Stalin's medium. . . . I hear from friends that he is passing through a new crisis now, and that new fluids, unknown to me, are penetrating him." The "fluids" were diagnosed as those of a "Right Heresy" in Moscow last week by the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party. It appeared that Comrade Bukharin had dared to say that some of Dictator Stalin's policies are too radical much as Comrade Trotsky dared...
...heart of Havana taken from him by the Cuban Government. His claim was based on a 400-year-old Spanish grant bounding the property ''as far as a dog's bark could be heard." Cuban courts and the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee have upheld his demand for compensation. The Cuban Government has refused...
...Rehback, Austria-Hungary, 69 years ago, Victor Berger attended the Universities of Vienna and Budapest, arrived in the U. S. in 1878 with $75 in his hosen. Metal he polished for $5 a week in New York, thence progressed to Milwaukee as a school teacher. In a debate he upheld the Single Tax against Socialism, won, but, convinced by his opponent's argument, turned Socialist himself. He it was who converted Eugene V. Debs to Socialism, later boomed him quadrennially for U. S. President. In 1898 he helped establish the Socialist Party. In 1900 he became editor...
Burton brewers have been potent in politics nearly as long. Ale has won them a family peerage (now held by Nellie Lisa Baillie, Baroness Burton) and a family baronetcy, now held by gruff Sir William Arthur Hamar Bass, Bart., who went to Harrow, joined the army, upheld the honor of the Burton Basses against the Boers in South Africa...