Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold clauses of its own bonds. Government bondholders were denied the right to sue in the Court of Claims on the somewhat extraordinary grounds that it is impossible to tell how much damage they have suffered since it is now illegal to own gold. However, the Court did not uphold the propriety of the Government's offering devalued money in place of old-size dollars to its own bondholders. That, said the Court, was not a question of regulating the value of money but of the Government's keeping its promises. In short, Government bondholders have...
Harvard organizations swung into action on two fronts yesterday as the National Student League moved to uphold the Uneeda Biscuit workers' strike in New York and the Liberal Club sought to prevent the passage in the State Legislature of an anti-Communist bill...
Victor H. Kramer '35, president of the club, declared that "We oppose this bill because it denies those principles of free speech which our democratic form of government is dedicated to uphold, and because the experience of foreign countries has shown that such an act would do much to aid the Communist cause, which cause we oppose so heartily...
Brown and Young, both of last year's Freshman squad, will uphold the Crimson honors in the 35-pound weight throw, but there has been no chance as yet to test their potentialities. Millard, Schumann, and Johnson are entered in the shot-put; all have had Varsity experience, and it is expected that Millard will place well in the meet...
...uphold Harvard's affirmative in the proposal: "Resolved, That the several states should pass legislation for the Socialization of Medicine," Harold W. Danser '37 and James J. Fuld '37 have prepared ten and 12-minute speeches respectively...