Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid $1,846,000 for its land, 18-year-old building and machinery. A great political howl rose, followed by condemnation proceedings which awarded Mr. Chandler $1,021,345 for his building and ground, nothing for the presses he wanted to leave behind. Then the State Supreme Court upheld Mr. Chandler in his demand that he be paid for his equipment. Meantime, Mr. Chandler had started his new plant, a six-story miniature skyscraper topped by an Hispanic tile roof, with the printing plant separated from the main structure by a 6-in. crack. Next the City Council stepped...
Notable are the production sequences in the Paris cafe, with Miss Ellis made up successively as a schoolmistress, a cocotte and a chestnut seller, singing Paris in Spring. There is also a turntable upheld by living statuary on which she sings something about jealousy. Cinemagoers with sharp eyes and good memories may look twice at the cafe's taxi-starter: Jack Mulhall, star of silent days...
...Upheld by unanimous decision of the Appellate Court was New York's Supreme Court order making Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, 11, a ward of the court, giving her to her mother, Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, for weekends, Christmas and July, to her aunt, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, for the rest of the year (TIME. Dec. 3 et ante). Though the opinion went out of its way to exonerate Mrs. Vanderbilt of her onetime maid's charge that she behaved indiscreetly with the Marchioness of Milford Haven, it pointedly concluded: "If the relator [Mrs. Vanderbilt] shall avail herself fully of her rights...
...likewise would consent. Japan consented at once last week. Italy was noncommittal, but France resounded with fury. Once again, Paris assumed. His Majesty's Government were forcing the French Government to incur fresh German wrath and thirst for revenge by upholding the Treaty of Versailles. If it be upheld. Britain remains automatically mistress of Europe's seas, while explaining to Germany that but for unreasonable France friendly Britain would raise no objection to Germany's naval demands. Snapped the French semi-official Journal des Débats: "If the German fleet were fixed...
...group of reporters. In Syracuse, where he joined the Albany Senators pending an executive committee hearing to decide whether he could play, a crowd of 300 met Baseballer Pitts at the station. He reached his hotel with a motorcycle police escort. Four days later the executive committee upheld Judge Bramham's ruling. Albany executives planned to refer the case to baseball's Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Said Alabama Pitts: "You know it's funny, all this fuss being made about me, when they don't really know whether I can play ball...