Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agreement to present a united Franco-British front to Germany. As the German Delegation left Berlin, Chancellor von Papen's position was that Germany can pay nothing more in Reparations and cannot even accept an extension of the Hoover Moratorium, under which the principle of German payment is upheld by having the Reich pay comparatively small sums into the Bank for International Settlements which are then re-loaned to Germany. The German demand to be presented at Lausanne was for total cancellation of Reparations with no strings attached...
...messages to N.A. N. A. When he sued for payment at $500 per message the news agency offered in defense that Passenger Reiner had broken his promise to the airship operators, that his contract to send messages was morally void. Last week the New York State Court of Appeals upheld N. A. N. A.'s defense, passed lightly over the agency's part in the alleged "fraud & deceit" thus: "The plaintiff's complaint that the defendant treated him as he had treated others falls upon deaf ears; the law is silent; it has nothing...
...France the Azores concession, and Harold Gatty of the U. S. (round-world 1931). A vote was called by Chairman Sir Arthur Whitten Brown (first Atlantic flight, Newfoundland-Ireland 1919, with the late Sir John William Alcock). While French and Spanish delegates sat mute the rest of the Congress upheld Balbo's open-door policy...
Good news for the U. S. oil industry came from Washington last week. The Supreme Court upheld Oklahoma's rigid proration law. Leaders thought that with the assurance of this decision behind them other States may act to prohibit "physical as well as economic waste...
...Levy 3L, while making nine miscues in the field, starred at the bat with a home run with bases loaded. The oldster's pitchers, while long upheld by sparkling work in the field, finally succumbed to a barrage of circuit clouts in the last few innings, which knocked F. A. Watson 3L, the former Redlands college hurler...