Word: upholds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many Canadians supported the commission's high-minded declaration of cultural independence but questioned whether Canada was ready to uphold it. Said the Montreal Herald: "A sparsely populated country adjoining a heavily populated country and sharing with it the same speech and largely the same cultural origins must expect to be dominated for a time." There was also a leaven of doubt whether money would buy the culture that Canada now lacks. "A nation cannot buy culture," warned the Calgary Herald. "It is something which grows out of the heart, not out of the pocketbook...
...House Select Committee on Lobbying felt that the C.C.G.'s activities are a clear case of attempting to influence legislation and demanded that Rumely reveal his financial backers in accordance with the law. Rumely refused, claiming that the C.C.G. was merely "educating the public to uphold Constitutional principles." Subsequently he was indicted for contempt of Congress; but the supporters of the Committee for Constitutional Government remain in hiding...
...Congress. It had high hopes that the Senate Appropriations Committee would restore what its sister committee in the House had taken away: 90% of the $97.5 million the Voice had asked to build new stations for world-wide broadcasts. Instead the Senate committee last week voted to uphold the cut. Like their colleagues in the House, the Senators were not satisfied with the accounting for money already spent, the overall quality of the Voice's operation, and the way the Voice's case had been presented by its head, Assistant Secretary of State Ed Barrett...
Bevan deny or uphold it? Bevan stood by the Tribune...
...books opens with a short warning: "Every student shall conduct herself at all times in such a way as to uphold her own good name and that of the college." The main objections to the rules concern having men and cigarettes in their rooms, but the girls are waiting for more luxurious quarters before making any requests...