Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London every paper except the Laborite Daily Herald (which advocates granting Indians their independence) upheld the right royal acts of Viceroy Lord Willingdon last week, particularly endorsed his arrest of Mahatma Gandhi though some editors argued that the Viceroy should have received "Gandhi" before ordering his arrest...
...without his consent) complained that Clubowner Ball was unfairly keeping him in the minor leagues. Tsar Landis considered the case, gave Outfielder Bennett permission to sign a new contract with anyone who wanted his services. Clubowner Ball protested the ruling, carried the case to court. When Judge Walter Lindley upheld the Landis edict, Ball appealed, vowed he would go to the U. S. Supreme Court for a decision...
Cynically last week the Committee's first report (secret and later suppressed) was called in Basle the "Pollyanna Report." With hard-boiled optimism it upheld the French thesis that Germany cannot remain forever unable to pay her debts, that when prosperity returns she should pay what she owes under the Young Plan which must be kept intact. The paradoxically hard-boiled "Pollyanna Report" was drafted by Britain's young delegate, Sir Walter Thomas Layton, 47, no glad-man (extreme right...
...that Negro Matthew Williams knew to protest his low wages was to get a revolver, kill his boss. His boss was Daniel J. Elliott, 67-year-old lumber dealer of Salisbury, on the eastern shore of Maryland. Last week, a few hours after the crime, the Eastern Shore upheld its reputation for being a fringe of the Deep South. Six men marched into the hospital where Williams lay, only partly conscious because he had shot himself in the chest and his employer's son had shot him in the head. A mob of 2,000 turned...
...Cultural standards must somehow be upheld. . . . The universities of America must learn to play the part of Mussolini in these matters and not the part of Sousa...