Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March, 1930, that Bruening succeeded socialist Hermann Mueller as Chancellor of the Weimar Republic under President Paul von Hindenburg. As Parliamentary chairman of the German center party, he represented the moderates who desired to uphold the peace treaties of 1919 and to stand by the League of Nations...
Outside of Congress, main figures in the fight against the Reorganization Bill were as extraordinary as the uproar they helped promote. One was Publisher Frank Gannett, who backed up his fulminations against the bill throughout his chain of upstate New York papers with something called the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government to lobby against the bill under directions of a $400-a-week propagandist named Dr. Edward Rumely. The other was famed Father Charles E. Coughlin who emerged from his retirement to make two radio speeches on the subject. Coughlin speeches and Gannett literature produced a record-breaking flood...
...high-powered lobby financed by Publisher Frank Gannett. Convening his Lobby Investigation Committee for the first time since he succeeded Hugo Black as its chairman, Indiana's Sherman Minton quickly produced a Dr. Edward A. Rumely who as secretary of something called the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government admitted that he had spent $50,000 and sent out 800,000 letters to defeat Reorganization, in which Publisher Gannett sees a threat to Democracy. On Dr. Rumely's somewhat ill-chosen mailing list, it turned out, was Texas' Tom Connally who had received a letter addressed...
Having delighted Labor once, the Supreme Court went on to uphold the National Labor Relations Board unanimously in two cases. In both cases (involving Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines and Pacific Greyhound Lines) the issue was whether the Board could order an employer to withdraw recognition of a company union if there was no competing union in the field. Admitting that there might be situations in which such an action would not be warranted, the Court nonetheless concluded that in both cases the Board's action was an appropriate way to give effect to the policy...
...visit to Herr Hitler. They reflected that in Jesuit-trained, rock-pious and astute Dr. Schuschnigg they have a Chancellor who could and would stand up persuasively to potent, mystic, unstable Dictator Hitler. News from London seemed to indicate chances brightening for a British-German-French-Italian understanding to uphold territorial Europe's status quo. Finally the Austrian people this week found Austrian Nazis wild with rage "at secret reports to them from Germany which those Nazis said mean that "Hitler has betrayed...