Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard orators, John A. O'Keefe '37, Bennett Frankel '37, and Thomas H. Quinn '36, upheld the negative side of the question in ten-minute speeches...
...subject of last evening's debate was "Resolved, That the power of the Supreme Court to review legislation be abolished." Robert T. Benjamin was the first speaker of the evening, and upheld the honor of the nine heavy judiciaries, while the affirmative forces were led by Robert J. Cumming...
...other decision day, Chief Justice Hughes began reading the majority opinions. But his voice was far louder than usual, far more dramatic. Lest his audience be held too long on tenterhooks, he summarized the decisions first: Congress' right to abrogate the gold clause in private contracts was upheld; citizens were denied the privilege of suing the Government in the Court of Claims for payment in old-sized dollars on either gold certificates or Government bonds. In short the Government had won its case on every point...
...Court upheld the right of Congress -under the Constitutional power of regulating money-to void gold clauses in private bonds. But no such clean bill of health was given the Government in abrogating the gold clauses of its own bonds. Government bondholders were denied the right to sue in the Court of Claims on the somewhat extraordinary grounds that it is impossible to tell how much damage they have suffered since it is now illegal to own gold. However, the Court did not uphold the propriety of the Government's offering devalued money in place of old-size dollars...
Consulted yesterday on the same subject, Frank W. Taussig '79, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, and Seymour E. Harris '20, assistant professor of Economics, upheld the constitutionality of the Court's decision and declared it to be satisfactory...