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...other contests, a Taft strategist suggested that they could raise a point of order because the motion included seven Louisiana delegates, whose cases had been settled by the state committee. In a hasty conference, the Taftmen decided to raise the point, and to let Guy Gabrielson, then presiding, uphold it. Then, if the Ikemen wanted to seat their seven from Louisiana, they would have to appeal from the ruling of the chairman. Any assembly is reluctant to overrule "the chair." Ikemen would have had a much harder time arguing against the chair than for what they deemed their rights. Said...
...union. In 1949 the members of Brooklyn's Cadman Memorial Church went to court over the merger problem, arguing that individual congregations could not be forced to abide by a general church decision. Cadman Memorial is now trying to get the New York state court of appeals to uphold an injunction against a merger...
...freshmen will uphold the negative against Princeton on the question: "Resolved, that presidential nominations should be selected by a national primary system...
Clubman. In Santa Monica, Calif., exActress Judith Barrett, suing for divorce, charged that millionaire husband Lindsay Howard, a member of the "Vikings Club," always fought a losing battle to uphold the club motto: "A Viking can always drink one more...
With the Ivy League championship in sight, the Harvard Debate Council will meet Brown University tonight to uphold the affirmative of the topic, "Resolved: That the Federal Government should adopt a permanent program of price and wage controls...