Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collegians are forced to waive the four year rule of inter-collegiate competition as some of the colony team have longer terms before graduation. The convicts also have an edge in experience, gained inside the courtroom upholding the negative side of a question in which the law argued the affirmative. This time, however, the prisoners will uphold the affirmative. The subject is Resolved, That the National Labor Relations Board should be empowered to enforce arbitration of all industrial disputes. The Yale News
...succored by any other government. Appealing over the heads of other governments to the world proletariat, desperate Mme Chiang last week affirmed: "The workers hold in their hands the power to compel observance of treaties, even if that power is relinquished by governments, and the resolve of Labor to uphold human rights is enshrined in the hearts of our people...
...press, to announce that Fordham was starting "the first attempt to interpret workers' problems by other than Marxian theories." Text for the courses, in which 100 unionists had enrolled last week, will be the encyclicals on labor by Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius XI. The school will uphold the right to strike, condemn violence and class warfare, have as instructors Rev. John P. Boland, chairman of New York State's Labor Relations Board. Rev. John Monaghan of Cathedral College, and Bernard J. O'Connell, Manhattan attorney...
...Japanese Government," Koo told the Conference, "will you not decide to withhold supplies of war materials and credits to Japan and extend aid to China? It is, in our opinion, the most modest way in which you can fulfill your obligations of helping to check Japanese aggression and uphold treaties...
This Chinese appeal for action to uphold treaties was followed by floods of words from Davis, Eden & Delbos. Their speeches were so nearly identical as obviously to have been written with heads together. All said, and Ambassador Davis also quote President Roosevelt as saying, that the sanctity of treaties must be upheld, all completely ignored Dr. Koo's plea that it be upheld, none proposed any measure to uphold it. With Italy voting "no" and with Norway, Sweden and Denmark abstaining, the rest of the Conference voted to adopt the Davis-Eden-Delbos motion, and the Conference adjourned...