Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disturbing to Manchester is a bond-holder's suit, still pending, which argues that a court in Massachusetts has no jurisdiction over a New Hampshire firm. If this contention should be upheld in the autumn, Manchester citizens fear that more months of legal bickering would delay the start of new enterprises in the Amoskeag mills. Ever since the mills closed a Manchester Citizens' Committee has been trying to find purchasers or lessors for all or part of the Amoskeag plant...
More important doings were in Birmingham's Town Hall. There Son Neville was none too subtly reminding Britons that both he and his father had gone from the mayoralty of Birmingham to Empire greatness. Said he: "Joseph Chamberlain upheld municipal work as one of the noblest and most useful avocations that any man or woman can follow. He upheld it as an invaluable school of preparation to those who might desire afterward to enter a larger field and engage in national activities." Wiseacres suspected Son Neville meant by "larger field" the House of Chamberlain's first Prime Ministry...
When the Council reacted with rare League courage, upheld Mr. Lester and rebuffed Herr Greiser, he beetled his brows, thrust out his Nazi chin and roared: "Not only in the name of the people of Danzig, but in the name of all the German people I formulate this proposal: The German people expect from the League of Nations in coming months actions that will permit me, as President of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig, to appear no more at Geneva...
...Upheld. The right of the State of New Jersey to levy a $12,247,000 inheritance tax on the $115,000,000 estate of President John Thompson Dorrance of Campbell Soup Co.; in New Jersey's Court of Errors & Appeals, after five years of litigation. Because New Jersey's Soupman Dorrance several years before his death bought a home in Radnor, Pa., his executors have already paid Pennsylvania $15,-000,000 in inheritance taxes...
...Maynard Hutchins became president of big University of Chicago in 1929, he has enjoyed himself tremendously. He reduced the term of Chicago's undergraduate course from four years to whatever length of time a clever student might need to lope through it, ignored critics outside the University, passionately upheld the banner of academic freedom. Many a Chicago teacher, however, has been disconcerted by "Bob" Hutchins' exuberance, his insistence that colleges should present their students with "clear and distinct ideas...