Word: upholds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buckley spoke to a packed house in debate with James C. Thomson Jr., Chairman of the Yale Daily News. After the speech, the Political Union voted 65-53 to uphold Thomson's defense of academic freedom...
...list of speakers for the fall is not definite yet, Gwirtzman said. The H.L.U. also will conduct one major national project, he stated. Two years ago, the group raised $6800 in support of three Senators who voted to uphold the President's veto of the McCarran Act. This year's project has not been selected...
Last week, at 66, Teacher Solomon announced that he was retiring-not because he had to, but because he was fed up. For 44 years he had tried to "uphold standards." But "the tide just drifted against me. There's no interest in whistling while you work. People just aren't interested in working hard any more...
...study of his people, Facing Mt. Kenya, Kenyatta is a devotee of Red magic. He spent the '30s in Moscow as a student-guest of the Kremlin, returned to Kenya after World War II. now heads a chain of 135 bush schools which spread anti-British propaganda and uphold old barbaric rites (e.g., female circumcision...
...other contests, a Taft strategist suggested that they could raise a point of order because the motion included seven Louisiana delegates, whose cases had been settled by the state committee. In a hasty conference, the Taftmen decided to raise the point, and to let Guy Gabrielson, then presiding, uphold it. Then, if the Ikemen wanted to seat their seven from Louisiana, they would have to appeal from the ruling of the chairman. Any assembly is reluctant to overrule "the chair." Ikemen would have had a much harder time arguing against the chair than for what they deemed their rights. Said...