Word: upheld
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Perhaps more important to the worker is the recognition of a striker as an employee. Under the former interpretation of common law, a man abandoned all claims to that status upon leaving his employment. Under the Clayton Act thus upheld, Justice Sutherland declares that it is not necessary for the old status of employer and employee to exist at the time the alleged contempt was committed. This meaning of the law gives to the worker the lien on his job which the feels when the leaves work with the intention of returning to it under more favorable conditions. It gives...
...test vote the Government was upheld by 320 to 209 votes. But the proceedings were not peaceful. The Communists, as lusty-voiced as ever, tried to delay debate until after the Senate had passed the Amnesty Bill (TIME, July 21). Deputy Andre Marty, the Black Sea Mutineer, called the Government: "Assassins, traitors, politicians without morals and without scruples." President of the Chamber, Paul Painlevé, had to suspend the session. Further disorders occurred after the Chamber had reassembled and closure was finally moved by 385 to 26 votes...
...Benito was still a young man when he went to atheistic Lausanne (Switzerland) and debated with a Protestant clergyman the proposition: "God does not exist-religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease." Benito upheld the affirmative before a huge Socialist audience...
...National Window Glass Workers' Union, the Irish Free State. As a member of the Judiciary Committee of the House in the 62nd Congress, he sponsored the 'Clayton Act which declared that labor unions could not be prosecuted under the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. As Solicitor General he upheld the Adamson Eight-Hour Law for railroad employes and prosecuted several anti-trust cases...
...unaggressive stand and said "No!" The Opposition thereupon warmed up and in a body supported the Premier. Twenty-six Communists, who always vote against everything, did the expected. Ninety-four Socialists, peeved at the Right and Centre for supporting the Socialist leader, decided not to vote. Premier Herriot was upheld by 456 votes against...