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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appropriating this title, we have set ourselves a standard which we hope we will be able to uphold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 10/19/1937 | See Source »

...newspaper with a large circulation, containing all the features of a regular newspaper, we cannot understand how the judge's verdict can be upheld by a higher court. . . . We intend to take our case to the highest court if necessary to uphold the Freedom of the Press. It seems to us the judge did not give the Hobo News a square deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: For Hoboes | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...Bruening's reputation has benefited rather than suffered, and Harvard may be justly proud of having taken a man into its fold, whose abilities were not appreciated in a country that has rejected all things intellectual and cultural. So long as the leading universities in this country continue to uphold the traditions of free speech and unrestricted academic thinking, hysterical dictatorships and mob psychology will hold little danger for America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S GOOD FORTUNE | 5/5/1937 | See Source »

...same time as the Yale-Harvard contest here, debates will also be held at Princeton and Yale. Harvard's affirmative team, composed of Tucker Dean '37, Robert Bean '39, Lawrence Ebb '39, will take part in the debate at Princeton. While Harvard will uphold the negative side of the question at home, with a team composed of Claudius Byrne '39, Richard Sullivan '38, and Joseph Healey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annual Triangular Debate to Be in Lowell House Tonight | 4/23/1937 | See Source »

Reader Kuebler is guilty of a careless misconstruction. TIME'S words were: "President Thomas Jefferson 132 years ago decided to uphold the doctrine of 'Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.' " Ambassador Pinckney was not the author of this phrase. The spokesman appears to have been Representative Robert Goodloe Harper of South Carolina on the occasion of a dinner given by Congress to John Marshall, just returned from France, at Philadelphia in June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 12, 1937 | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

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