Word: upheld
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Edward F. Burke '50 and Jerrold P. Bahn '49 successfully upheld the negative of the question: "Resolved, That the veto power of the United Nations Big Five be abolished now." Judging the contest were A. G. Papandreou, instructor in Economics and Adam B. Ulam, teaching fellow in Government. This was the fifth Debating Council victory in the ten debates held thus far this fall...
...strikebreakers and wrecked the mine of the Southern Illinois Coal Co. near Herrin, the U.M.W. settled out of court for around $700,000. But never had any union treasury taken such a sock as last week's. That is, it would be a sock if the Supreme Court upheld the sentence. The Court said it would hear arguments next month...
Holy Cross debaters successfully upheld the negative position on the question: "Resolved, That world government should be established now," as they gained victory over the Harvard Debate Counccil in the Lowell House Junior Common Room last night...
...committee also upheld the single-seat principle for the cheering section, with the advice that a change in this tradition would produce a situation even more unfair to many men than the present one in that it would move many students even farther out toward the end zones...
...could tell for sure how much money the huge lending agency had on hand, where its money was invested, how much it had coming in, or how much it owed. Last week, after a sharp rebuke from the House Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, which upheld Lindsay Warren, the agency finally got started on the job of setting its records straight...