Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ruling on an appeal by Excelsior El Pais, a newspaper suppressed by President Machado's so-called "gag decree," the Cuban Supreme Court upheld the decree last week, thus reversed reports current in Havana (TIME, Feb. 2) that the Court had prepared a decision holding the President's act unconstitutional...
...Harvard debating team last night was defeated by speakers from Porto Rico, in a contest held at Phillips Andover Academy. The winners were upheld by a majority of the audience, who did the voting...
...Applied Science, Cleveland. His results showed a definite ether drift, which he will expound in April at the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. In Germany, the other ether detector. Dr. Georg Joos, professor of theoretical physics at Jena University, reported that he had obtained a negative result, upheld Dr. Einstein...
...long ago the Supreme Court of Nebraska was asked to rule on an injunction against the Minneapolis law firm of Davis & Michel. The court upheld the injunction because "agents of these attorneys were traveling in the State [Nebraska] soliciting employment . . . haunting the homes of the injured and bringing great discredit to the legitimate practice...
Then came to the Prime Minister another message from Lady Houston: ". . . The supremacy of English airmen can only be upheld by their entrance into the contest . . . and to show I am not to be daunted, I will guarantee the whole amount...