Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Henry Joel Cadbury will uphold the affirmative in the debate "Is Pacifism the Practical Way to Peace?" in the Lowell House Common Room tonight at 7:30 o'clock...
...great majority of Princetonians uphold the Dies Committee on the much-debated issue of its right to investigate any and all activities for the purpose of quelling "un-American" activities, 35 per cent approving without reservation and 55 per cent "in part." Further, 23 per cent feel that it should be retained permanently "as it stands," while the majority again straddle the fence and support it as a permanent organization only "in a modified form...
Three years ago last week, in slickers and galoshes, under umbrellas and sodden newspapers, thousands of U. S. citizens stood on the great plaza before the Capitol, saw skullcapped Charles Evans Hughes swear in bareheaded Franklin Delano Roosevelt to uphold and defend the Constitution...
...ministers are men of God, and they say God tells them that the Allies are fighting a righteous war. They have taken their stand solemnly, and we may assume that they will stand by it, and preach for it, and defend it in the same spirit with which they uphold the most basic belief of their religious faith the very existence of God. But how likely is it that they will...
...declared felons, subject to fines (up to $5,000) and for imprisonment (up to five years), but peace officers always say that they have been overpowered by mobs and find witnesses to agree. How then, he argued, could the U. S. enforce such a law, even if the courts uphold its questionable constitutionality...