Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...source of Broadcaster Hard's expose, Administrator Hopkins declared : "He gets all his stuff from Sam Jones, who's an expert at cooking up this sort of material. He used to work for the Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution and he put on that big campaign down at the Talmadge convention to smear...
...conclusion that they could make political capital out of an overt and noisy appearance of supporting the Spanish Cabinet, just as Madrid was in mortal danger of falling to the Whites (see p. 34). Should it fall without either Stanley Baldwin or Joseph Stalin having done anything to uphold Spanish Democracy or Spanish Bolshevism-these being matters of the point of view-what was Mr. Baldwin to say afterward to British devotees of Democracy, and what was Comrade Stalin to say to Russian enthusiasts for Bolshevism? In this doubly paradoxical dilemma a suave British finesse and a crude Russian demarche...
...Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, strove to uphold British rights of freedom to demonstrate, but he thought it necessary to cancel all police leaves and send 10,000 Bobbies to keep order in East London. Too late to avert the riot, Commissioner of Metropolitan Police Sir Philip Game informed Sir Oswald that mobsters were getting out of hand and the 5,000 Fascists could not be allowed to march. In a closed car, the windshield of which was quickly smashed by a paving stone, the Fascist leader rushed to his lined-up Blackshirts, yelled "Sir Philip has banned the march...
...uniformed members of the Government's own Assault Guards. Though these assassins admittedly acted without President Azana's knowledge, their crime showed that the most violent Left terrorism was now operating in the shadow of the Government itself. In Right opinion, the Republic had ceased to uphold republican order or republican rights and the first broadside issued by forces of the Revolution said they were striving for a "Restoration" of the order and rights previously enjoyed by Spaniards...
...Eastern crews-Columbia, Cornell, Navy, Penn and Syracuse-Cornell, heaviest in the race, looked best, but the two Westerners were favorites. In their own regatta, at Seattle last April, Washington had beaten California by three lengths but that was at three miles. California had a precedent to uphold. Its crews were Poughkeepsie winners "and Olympic champions...