Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answered the Times. "As long as large newspapers of the country permit themselves to be victimized by these space grafters, we can hardly expect the smaller papers to uphold the principles of sound advertising. On the other hand if the large papers will consistently refuse such propositions the precedent will be established which will give confidence and power to the smaller city publisher...
...dissolved the local union which struck without sanction and had negotiated new and more favorable terms with the newspapers. Samuel Gompers telegraphed Major Berry: " Unless the pressmen redeem themselves from this awful blunder, you are justified in resorting to every means within your power to keep the faith, uphold the good name of your organization and the good-will of employers who may want to maintain beneficial contractual relations with the union...
...Oxford team is to uphold the following question: "Resolved: that this assemblage deems the French occupation of the Ruhr as greatly prejudicial to the welfare of the world." The three Oxford debaters who will speak in favor of this question are C. H. Scaife, who was vice-president of the Oxford Union last term; J. D. Woodruff, for a time a member of the British Diplomatic service; and G. A. Gardner, a student of Magdalen College, who in addition has had both dramatic and military experience. Although the Harvard team, which consists of Philip Walker 25, Charlton MacVeagh...
...hold a convention in Mexico City next year. He said that "silk-hatted, frock-coated Rotarian Fascisti from the United States were no less enemies of a socialistic revolutionary nation than the black-shirted Italians." The protest was carried amid roars of applause. The labor unions are determined to uphold their viewpoint-with a general strike if necessary...
...that nobody desires nor intends to support the enforcement of prohibition. But these narrow observers forget that Massachusetts is among the wettest, of the forty-eight states, and that beyond its limits the great majority of the country is really endorsing the law, and will continue to favor and uphold it as long as it is on the statute books, which will be until the day after the Judgment...