Search Details

Word: uphold (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...members of the American Civil Liberties Union, Howard Whiteside '34 and Chase Kimball, will uphold the affirmative side of the question. Medford Evans, a former member of the Atomic Energy Commission, and Will-more Kendall, assistant professor of Political Science at Yale, will argue the negative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athenaeum Debate | 4/16/1957 | See Source »

...Poke? For almost the first time during the debate, the Senate chamber began to fill when Georgia's respected Senator Richard Russell rose to speak. Russell had introduced a substitute to the Administration's resolution. It would uphold the President in his right to use U.S. troops in fending off Communist aggression in the Middle East-but it would deny the Administration's request to spend some $200 million of already authorized funds in the Middle East without congressional restriction. Russell lost no time in using the foreign-aid provision of the Eisenhower Doctrine to attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Debate on the Doctrine | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...Levy has deduced Shaw's outlook from his opinions, in a fair and critical way. Where necessary, he acknowledges the non-judicial prejudices that helped Shaw establish a doctrine (except in the liquor-licensing cases, where he curiously fails to consider whether Shaw's readiness to uphold the State's "police power" might have proceeded from the Chief Justice's own prohibitionist leaning...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Justice Shaw: The Law And the Commonwealth | 3/8/1957 | See Source »

...interfere in the Algerian rebellion because Algeria is legally a part of France. To win this support France pulled out all the propaganda stops. From his remote hospital in French Equatorial Africa Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prizewinner for 1952, fired off a letter urging President Eisenhower to uphold the French position. In 31 U.S. newspapers there appeared a full-page ad, sponsored by nine European and Canadian newspapers, carrying the text of a Le Figaro article ominously warning the U.S. not to make France choose "between her African vocation and her American friendship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Foursquare for France | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...peoples of the world as well as to the people of the U.S." Wrote Fair-Dealer Doris Fleeson: "From start to finish the President decisively repudiated the isolationist-nationalist sentiments with which his party was so long identified. The new Democratic Congress will have no choice but to uphold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Right on the Line | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | Next