Word: upholds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modification of the existing Summer School is the more conservative suggestion. Supporters argue that courses in the three term year must be staggered to allow for faculty vacations, and that incoming Freshmen would never have a complete course curriculum from which to choose. They uphold the adequacy of the present academic year, urging only the substitution of seven week semesters for six week ones...
Professor Hocking is expected to discuss the need for a spiritual as well as a military victory and to consider the role of philosophy as a basis for national morale. Professor Brinton will uphold the point of view that labor, management and government have still further specific sacrifices ahead which each must make before the war can finally be won, while Matters, representing the viewpoint of a person of military age who is not yet in the Army, will spend some time discussing what young people of high school age can do to help in the war effort...
Said he: "I distinctly specified that once the country was cleared of the Nazis it should choose its own constitution. One thing certain is that the people will uphold the principles of democracy." With this addendum, General de Gaulle's statement was a strong bid for the Free French movement to be recognized as the custodian of French democratic ambitions. In France, Pierre Laval had just publicly declared what everyone knew: "I hope for German victory." He did not publicly admit, as he has privately, that it was to save his own oily skin, but piously attributed his hope...
...Washington last week Mike Elizalde took an oath to uphold the Philippine Constitution as Minister without Portfolio in President Quezon's Cabinet. Thus he became in effect, the Philippine Commonwealth's Government in Exile. Of Minister Elizalde's mother and three brothers, now presumably prisoners in the hard little hands of the Japs, there was still no word...
...Power Co., charging that the company had appealed to its employes in bulletins and speeches "to bargain . . . without the intervention of any 'outside' union," had furthermore encouraged an "employer-dominated union," and ordered the company to stop "unfair labor practices." The Circuit Court of Appeals refused to uphold the order. NLRB took the case to the Supreme Court...