Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speedily the President made reply. He recalled that in his inaugural address (TIME, Dec. 10) he had pledged himself to uphold the right of free speech and therefore could not muzzle the buffoon. Instead, the President sent 50 riflemen to protect the Teatro Lirico from possible Crom mobs. To the Crom's charge of "persecution," square-jawed Señor Fortes Gil returned a flat denial. Thereupon the Crom Congress ordered all Crom members* throughout Mexico to resign from any State or Federal post which they may hold...
...Student Council at a meeting held yesterday afternoon to represent Harvard at the National Student Federation conference which opens in Columbus, Missouri on Wednesday. The conference, an annual feature of the U.S.F.A. activities, has been attended by a Harvard representative for some years past. Field, who will uphold the Harvard part in this year's conference, was president of the CRIMSON as an undergraduate and also elected permanent treasurer of his class in his Senior year. He is now a third year student in the Law School where he is treasurer of the Law Review...
League debates for the current season will get under way when the debaters representing Harvard will uphold the affirmative against Amherst on the subject, "Resolved: That the Economic prosperity of the United States is unfavorable to its morals", in Paine Hall on the evening of December 8. The negative Harvard team was to have gone to Vassar at this time, but the team from Poughkeepsie forfeited the match...
Said Toral's lawyer, famed and feline Demetrio Sodi: "I wanted my client to be convicted. Had he been acquitted no power on earth could have prevented a lynching. We shall appeal to the Supreme Court. That august tribunal will uphold my contention that the crime was purely political and is therefore punishable by a sentence of not more than 20 years imprisonment...
...frank to confess that my interest in this campaign is personal far more than partisan. If I did not believe in the ability of Mr. Hoover to deal with the farm problem, if I did not believe he would in good faith uphold and enforce the Constitution, I can pledge you that I would not be undergoing the unspeakable hardships of a long campaign...