Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge Bingham, nominal editor of the Courier-Journal for ten years, doubled its circulation, upheld the national reputation that Colonel Watterson had given it. But he left the editorial page to Harrison Robertson, and in 1929 resigned the title to him. (Judge Bingham became Franklin Roosevelt's Ambassador to Great Britain, died in office two years ago.) Editor Robertson never worked for any other paper. He had been 60 years a member of the Courier-Journal staff when he died last fortnight...
Illinois women, led by the League of Women Voters, have long clamored for the right to serve on juries. Last summer they got their reward: the courts upheld the constitutionality of a new law making jury service for women in Illinois compulsory...
...planned economy, Moscow sends Comrades Bul-janoff, Iranoff and Kopalski to Paris to sell confiscated jewels. Though at first they ask, "What would Comrade Lenin say?" about stopping at a swank hotel, the answer soon comes clear: "Comrade Lenin would say, 'The prestige of the workers must be upheld.' We cannot go against Comrade Lenin." But they hastily order "the smallest, dirtiest room in the hotel" when Moscow sends Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) to check up. She is an unsmiling young Russian, with a delightful Swedish accent, who announces that love is a chemical reaction, wants to know...
Even legislators who had never heard of Henry Adams were inclined to feel hit. Next day there was a great rubbing of sore heads on Capitol Hill. Senators charged the picture lowered the Senate's dignity. Three Senators (who declined to be quoted) upheld Senatorial dignity with these pungent comments on the film: "Not all Senators are sons of bitches." "Punk!" "It stinks...
Sold, the convention upheld his honor. But Dr. Leach still clung on. Realizing that they would never win any concessions from the A. M. A. with Dr. Leach in the saddle, the association after six days of wrangling, finally ousted him, ordered its lawyer to fight the whole matter out in court if necessary. Elected as new president was Dr. Albert Woods Dumas of Natchez, Miss...