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...Undergraduate he was also a track star, being the Relay Carnival Decathalon champion in 1933. The terms of his new salary and his assistants were not revealed. His election gives him a position of the greatest responsibility as he must continue to uphold the University of Pennsylvania tradition of strong football teams...
...more serious is the fact that this amendment is potentially very harmful; it would destroy the influence which a revitalized American foreign policy could wield. As Secretary Woodring recently said, "Let us keep ourselves in position to use our powerful influence . . . to uphold international good faith, decency, and order, in the knowledge that only in a world that respects these underlying principles can democracies survive...
...constitutionality of State minimum wage laws for women. In invalidating New York State's minimum wage law in June 1936, it created a legal "no man's land" from which both State and Federal legislation was barred. In March 1937, the Court adroitly reversed itself, to uphold an analogous Washington statute...
...artillery, additional tanks to be supplied to Bucharest. Premier Tatarescu was so pleased that he joined M. Delbos in a fervent pledge that "our two countries will remain faithful to the League of Nations and its principles." At the same time, however M. Delbos was warned that Rumania will uphold her end of the bargain only so long as it continues clear that Paris is now loosening rather than tightening its military accord with Moscow (TIME...
...collegians are forced to waive the four year rule of inter-collegiate competition as some of the colony team have longer terms before graduation. The convicts also have an edge in experience, gained inside the courtroom upholding the negative side of a question in which the law argued the affirmative. This time, however, the prisoners will uphold the affirmative. The subject is Resolved, That the National Labor Relations Board should be empowered to enforce arbitration of all industrial disputes. The Yale News