Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard upheld the negative side of the question, "Resolved, That Herbert Hoover should be elected President in 1932", in its arguments in Cambridge, and the affirmative side of the same topic at Yale. About 75 people attended the meeting in Lowell House, and heard the judges, Captain E. N. Edwards of Wellesley, J. E. Gibson of Newton Centre, and A. L. Moore of Boston, deliver the verdict, following which a session of questions from the floor was held...
...Party which recently voted sympathy with Eamon de Valera's fight for Irish freedom (TIME, April 11), has repudiated so many debts (promptly made good by the Commonwealth Treasury) that a bill to seize tax revenues of New South Wales was recently passed by the Dominion Parliament and upheld by the Australian High Court last week. Thus clothed with supreme authority, Premier Lyons promptly made proclamation to the citizens of New South Wales, ordered them to pay income taxes into his Federal Treasury and not into the State Treasury of their own defiant State Pcemier John Thomas Lang...
Over his Eskimos bushy-bearded Danish Premier Theodore A. M. Stauning broods as anxiously as any hen over her chicks. Last week Herre Stauning's Cabinet again upheld his slogan "Greenland for the Eskimos!" (TIME, March 23 & June 8, 1931), rejected an application from Transamerican Airlines Corp. for a concession to establish transatlantic flying bases in Greenland and at Copenhagen. (Three times larger than the Kingdom of Denmark is its Eskimo-infested colony Great Greenland...
...yellow-dog" contract is an agreement of employment wherein the employe promises the employer not to join any labor union. Largely because he once upheld the validity of such a contract, so hateful to union labor, the Senate rejected the nomination of U. S. Circuit Judge John Johnston Parker of North Carolina to the Supreme Court (TIME, May 19, 1930). Declared the House Judiciary Committee reporting H. R. 5315: "The vice of such contracts, which are becoming alarmingly widespread, is that if they are carried to their ultimate conclusion, they would abolish trade-unionism. That is undoubtedly the purpose...
...Justice Holmes comes from an old Harvard family, and since his graduation from college he has upheld Harvard's reputation in the legal profession as his father upheld the University's literary standards," Professor Chafee stated. "His legal writing stands in the first rank, and his book "The Common Law" is one of the classic commentaries on the growth of the legal system, while his collected papers are read by almost every law student in the country...