Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stanley Reed, did not specifically prohibit political opinions in union newspapers. Then the court, in a unanimous decision, threw out an indictment against the C.I.O., which campaigned successfully in its News for a Democratic candidate in a Baltimore election last summer. Still unanswered by the court was the larger question: Can unions legally contribute funds directly to a political campaign...
...Pelletier, let it be known that he viewed such talk with alarm. In a letter to the city council he came out against mixed bathing, warned that "promiscuity of the sexes in scanty costume [is] a menace to chastity and purity." The council took up the question and split four and four. Mayor J. Arthur Rousseau, who had toured Canadian swimming pools and been shocked at what he saw, announced that he stood with the bishop. Then everybody got into the argument...
Walcott's big advantage over the Champ, who has been on top too long to be hungry, is incentive. No one doubted that the old Joe Louis could knock Joe Walcott stiff in a round or two. The big question, to be answered next week in Yankee Stadium, is whether the present-day Joe Louis can still beat anybody-even a deserving never-was like hungry Jersey...
Avery had scored a clean K.O., but it had left Monkey Ward punch drunk. As one bigwig said, with vast understatement: "This is just no way to run a business. It's a question of how long Avery can get away with it-a big question...
...what the dissenting minority called "the most important antitrust case which has been before the court in years," the U.S. Supreme Court last week assayed the question. By a 5-to-4 vote it turned down the Justice Department Antitrust Division's attempt to prevent the sale of Los Angeles' Consolidated Steel Corp. to Columbia Steel Co., a subsidiary of U.S. Steel...