Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Also "available" became bodacious, New-Deal-loathing Frank Gannett, Rochester, N. Y. publisher, and chairman of his own National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government. While Mr. Gannett was away (on a Western speaking tour), the office mice began to play, nominated him in an editorial written without his knowledge, and without his robust style. In Spokane, Wash., pleased Mr. Gannett bumbled: "No American . . . would decline the nomination if it were offered him.*Mr. Gannett had been nominated before: by British Press Peer Lord Beaverbrook last year (TIME...
...belong to me?" Queen Emma answered: "No, my child, it is you who belong to all these people." Her preparation by private tutors for queenship was guided by this principle. At 18, in 1898, she was crowned in the New Church at Amsterdam, swearing to support the Constitution and uphold the liberties of the people...
...Casimir the Great, who devoted his entire life to domestic reforms and intellectual pursuits, to prove that the people of Poland, "like any other European nation, have established for themselves the right to freedom and independence, a right which the Poles have never relinquished and will always continue to uphold...
Phase II of the purge came next day. The executive committee demanded that all A. L. P. nominees for city and county posts in the November 7 election pledge themselves to uphold the anti-Communist resolution. One leader hesitated: chubby Michael Joseph Quill, president of C. I. O.'s Transport Workers, (trolleys, taxis, busses, subways). Mike Quill is politically potent, a generally stanch backer of Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, and one of five A. L. P. members of New York's City Council. With many Communists in his hive, he has followed the party beeline, was suspected...
...concerned about U. S. neutrality. Bishop Sheil had just returned from a visit to Rome, had hotfooted to Washington for a two-hour lunch in the White House. It then became known that his C. Y. 0. speech would be broadcast and that it would uphold the Administration, denounce Father Coughlin...