Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bold Henry Ford once lashed out. He distributed pamphlets appealing to his men not to join a union. The NLRB cracked down on him, although a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals later declined to uphold the board...
...Antigua had formerly been the meeting place of the Parliament of Basque Senators. They knew of the ancient oak in its courtyard--time honored symbol of the free Basques--but they marveled not that Ferdinand and Isabella in 1476, and Charles the Fifth again in 1526, had sworn to uphold the Basque Fueros under its overspreading canopy...
...conferring honorary degrees on 35 pioneering scientists and scholars, many of them now little known. Of the next 50 years, he said: "Our people should be able to look to the universities for the moral courage, the intellectual clarity and the spiritual elevation needed to guide them and uphold them in this critical hour. . . . Candid and intrepid thinking about fundamental issues-in the crisis of our time this is the central obligation of the universities...
...uphold the Treasury's hoped-for ratio of 1-to-2 between money borrowed and money collected by taxation, Secretary Henry Morgenthau said there might have to be a new tax bill in the next few months. To the Ways and Means Committee, which had just finished sweating over preliminaries for one new bill which adds $3,503,400,000 to the U.S. tax burden (TIME, June 30 et seq.), wringing another $10,000,000,000 out of the U.S. taxpayer seemed an obvious impossibility...
Hardly had the President's unsuccessful Supreme Court Reorganization Bill gone to Congress, when the Nine Old Men, themselves abdicating their power to uphold the letter of the Constitution, began scuttling the older Constitution itself-a process practically completed in the past term...