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...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...
...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...
...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...
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...
Railway Labor. Though it failed to rule on the National Labor Relations Act, the Court did uphold, unanimously, the model from which it was drawn-the Railway Labor Act passed in 1926 and amended in 1934. Like the Wagner Act, it compels collective bargaining, empowers a majority of employers to elect their sole bargaining agency, provides machinery for mediation and adjustment. Accepted by most railroaders without legal quibble, it has helped make the railway industry a national model of pacific labor relations. But the same reason that it has rarely been challenged in court-the fact that railways are indisputably...