Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sense of this meeting that the policy of the Harvard Glee Club uphold the University's policy that there should be no racial discrimination against a member of the club who is otherwise eligible for the club...
...poll tax, but to raise their standard of living and to educate them. This is a slow task, but a far wiser and safer method than giving a vote immediately to ten million people who in their ignorance are more apt to use it to subvert than to uphold constitutional government. Very sincerely yours, Laurence Davis...
...resolution of the debate is "Resolved, That disputes between labor and capital should be settled by compulsory arbitration during the defense emergency." The Freshman team of Sheldon Beren, Thomas Kuhn, and Charles Wolf debating in the Union will uphold the affirmative. At Yale, Ted Baer, William Suckle, and Louis Polack will defend the negative position for the Crimson...
...jobs in commercial radio. They are welcome on sustaining shows and in bit parts on sponsored programs. But no advertiser will buck racial prejudice to back a colored show or let a Negro star shine too brightly. Not even Ethel Waters, who packs them in on Broadway, could uphold a sponsored spot when she tried...
Bandmaster of the 369th for more than four years has been Russell Wooding, onetime Broadway arranger and conductor, onetime bandmaster for the New York Giants football team. Bandmaster Wooding works his men hard, says: "All of us realize that we have a great tradition to uphold." That tradition was begun in World War I, when the 369th was the crack 15th New York Infantry and its bandmaster was the late James Reese Europe...