Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shall risk calling the Collective American Spirit to touch the purists, Methodists and doctrinaries. . . . Benton's art, apparently, is a direct and unblushing representation of American life." Architect Frank Lloyd Wright meets with Critic Craven's approval. One of the few art writers of today to uphold George Grey Barnard and his vast vaporings in stone, Mr. Craven recalls that no less a person than Rodin once openly envied this aging U. S. sculptor. Of Jacob Epstein's 100-odd "masculine" bronzes, he says: "There is not a dead one in the lot. . . . One of the most...
...heart and sometimes in fact, although their official dress calls for white shirts. Though they do not admit it, they are virtually the Nazi organization in the U. S. Unlike the other shirt groups they are mainly German-Americans with a great reverence for Hitler, a strong desire to uphold Hitlerism against the criticisms of U. S. Jews. They support the Hitler doctrines of "leadership" and "order"; that is, dictatorship. But their main interest lies overseas, and their chief hate against U. S. Jewry is because of its boycott against German goods...
...long ways off in the country, its baseball team has had a remarkably successful season so far this year, downing Andover by a score of 17-3, Lord Tannis 16-4, and New England School of Accounting 18-3. The Crimson sluggers thus may find themselves hard pushed to uphold their record of eight wins and one defeat...
Those men selected to compete with Andover are Bennett Frankel, John A. O'Keefe, and Harold W. Danser, Jr. They will uphold the affirmative side of the question, "Resolved, That modern advertising is detrimental to the nation as a whole...
...represent the Heimwehr, one the employers, one labor. The Burgomaster will choose a new advisory body called the Wiener Bürgerschaft. Three Catholic priests will be on it. and there will be one Jew to represent the dwindling rights of that race. All must swear to uphold "the Christian German character of Vienna." Any or all the Bürgerschaft may be dismissed at will by the new Burgomaster...