Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson, with the blessing of his beloved President, announced: ". . . The Federal authority must and will uphold the Constitutional mandate that commerce among these United States be free...
...Emerson, however, jumped into politics with both feet last week as the final balloting on the society's insurance question took place. Anti-New Deal Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett gave a dinner at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel to recruit members for his National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government, and asked Dr. Emerson to speak. About 75 prominent Manhattan physicians were invited to come and bring as guests four of their wealthiest or most influential patients. The committee solicited money from doctors and friends, promised in return to work for the defeat of the "dangerous, menacing" Wagner bill...
...oath does not appear to deviate too far from the precepts of democracy. But, unfortunately, this law has quite a different de facto meaning when it is enforced in a community where there is strong local feeling against alien social systems like Communism and Socialism. Using the pledge to uphold the Constitution as a convenient excuse, local authorities have time and time again made this law an effective barrier against teaching any theory or fact that might tend to alter the established order. Thus in practice the Teachers' Oath has proved a menace to the democratic system; and Harvard...
...repeal of the forty-hour week by decreelaw, and the military suppression of labor's right to strike, were not the methods a democratic premier should have chosen. He and the present deputies were elected one the pledge to uphold labor's demand for a forty-hour week; Daladier later reversed his own stand; but he had no right to change the nation's mind by coercion...
Ggranville Hicks '23, James Whitehead '40, and John Wallen '40, will uphold the affirmative for Adams of the subject, "Resolved. That literature is most valuable as a reflection or criticism of the society in which it arises, or as an attempt to improve that society." The Leverett speakers are Theodore Morrison '23, Irving Michelman '39, and J. David Justice...