Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five-to-four decision, the Supreme Court upheld the right of the U. S. Treasury to redeem bonds, sold as payable in gold, in devalued 59? dollars. It also denied citizens the right of suing for payment in gold dollars in the Court of Claims. Before the Court have been three cases, rising indirectly from the original gold clause decisions. In these holders of Liberty Bonds, marked payable in gold but called for redemption in "legal tender," contended that the redemption call was invalid, hence that the Government still owes interest on the bonds. This week, these three cases...
...godchild of Pope Leo XIII, Countess Anna Laetitia ("Mimi") Pecci-Blunt received her first communion at the hands of the Pontiff himself. Her father, Count Camillo Pecci, was Commander of the Noble Guards of the Vatican and a leader of the "Blacks" who, before Conciliation with Mussolini in 1929, upheld the Papal Court in Roman society against the "Whites" who honored the King. Her mother was the Spanish Marquesa des Bueno, descendant of an illustrious 15th Century defender of Granada against the Moors. In 1919 a Papal legate in Paris performed the ceremony which united "Mimi" with an Englishman named...
...course in playwriting, and his "47 Workshop," which produced many of the plays written in the course, Harvard reaffirmed its policy of only theoretical training for undergraduates. The loss of one of the greatest teachers of the drama was a high price to pay that the policy might be upheld, yet it was paid because Professor Baker's too-practical methods of training did not jibe with the theoretical approach of the University...
...young Red soldier returns gloriously to his village to marry his girl in spite of the extorting opposition of the sorcerer and hostility of the priest. He beats the sorcerer for his prediction of a baby with a hairy body and a long black tall, and justice is vigorously upheld when the latter's suit for damages is dismissed by the Soviet court because of his attempt to profit from an outworn superstition...
John A. Sullivan '38 and Robert M. Grubbs '39 took the negative on the question, "Resolved: That the National Labor Relations Board should be empowered to arbitrate all industrial disputes." Bernard Lisman and Walter Glass upheld the affirmative for Vermont in a no-decision debate...