Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attacked administration retorted quickly to Dr. Horriaday's suggestions. They said they had always upheld all of his resolutions except the McNary-Haugen bill. They were against this bill because they felt that the Biological Survey which now sets bag limits was i.e better position than Congress to know what was best for U. S. birds. The Biological Survey has a staff of scientists who do nothing but study bird conditions...
...products, by buying heavily into cold storage, stockyard and terminal railroad companies. The packers settled the suit by consenting to drop all production unrelated to the meat industry, to abandon the retail field. In 1920 a Federal Court ratified this consent decree, which the U. S. Supreme Court upheld...
...indignant at the squalor of his Camden surroundings. Mark Twain, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field, John Burroughs, Edward MacDowell, James M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Bernard Shaw, Israel Zangwill, Henry James ?he knew them all. On a visit to England, onetime Pitcher Garland met Cricketer Conan Doyle. Each upheld his favorite game: Doyle politely doubted the possibility of throwing a curve. Garland pitched a cricket ball at him, convinced...
Puzzle for Hoover. Up to now President Hoover has upheld the principle (laid down by President Wilson) that it is wrong to recognize a revolutionary regime (such as Russia's) and last week the President was believed to be adjusting himself to circumstances: Bolivia, Peru, and Argentina have all set up "revolutionary governments" since June, and potent U. S. commercial interests clamor for their recognition...
...weeks later when she appeared in Mexico. Airplanes, boats, divers searched for her body. One diver was drowned. Although she was identified as the woman seen at Carmel during the interim with Kenneth G. Ormiston, Angelus Temple radioman, her story of being kidnaped and held for ransom was upheld in the California courts. Ormiston has never reappeared in California, has never testified...