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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change, nor by liberals who would put no check on hasty attempts to alter the face of government. Yet this well-balanced court is in a tight spot. A majority may believe that it would be less serious for the U. S. to face the economic upset caused by upholding the gold clauses than to establish a precedent that may in future make all contracts into scraps of paper to be blown hither & thither by any political wind. But if the Court should decide to uphold the gold clauses, the reaction ot the country against the Court would be indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Questions Without Answers | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

...start to mix it up. Gallagher uses the demonstration method in teaching the tricks of the trade and goes to it with Johnson when he wants to show the boys how it is done. Although the Harvard team cannot compare with Oklahoma, nevertheless, Cliff still maintains that he can uphold the honor of the East and pin his brother to the mat at any appointed time. There is a good natured family match in the offing and Gallagher has waived the matter of a referee since he believes that no human eye could follow his motions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMONG THE MINORS | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

Indications point to the supposition that the Council will uphold the decision of its appointees. Following their usual policy, University Hall will take no action. Thus any steps will probably have to be taken by either the Senior Class or Gundlach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recount Works to Lift Harvard From Tradition, States Playfair | 1/4/1935 | See Source »

...Steel, Atterbury of Pennsylvania Railroad, Swope of General Electric, Sloan of General Motors, Gifford of A. T. & T., Avery of Montgomery Ward were not even among those present. But genial, white-thatched Clinton Lloyd Bardo, who resigned month ago as president of New York Shipbuilding Corp., was there to uphold the position of tycoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Congress of Industry | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...more years undoubtedly have the two or more years undoubtedly have the right to complain of the calibre of recent Harvard football. Far from losing our heads, calling for free sport facilities, and berating the H.A.A., we only suggested that the acquisition of a coach who could uphold his own perogatives and produce good Harvard teams without hindrance from a too close control of the Athletic Association's administrator, is now necessary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rhetorical Mysticism | 12/8/1934 | See Source »

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