Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the White House "love feast" (whose results were inconclusive), 19 southern utility companies, including four Commonwealth & Southern subsidiaries, had sought to tie up TVA's power program by challenging its constitutionality. Result was a decision by a three-man Federal tribunal in Chattanooga last January which flatly upheld the constitutionality of the contracts under which TVA has sold some $3,500,000 worth of power to 32 co-operatives and municipalities and nine industrial corporations, cleared the way for Director Lilienthal to fulfill contracts with other municipalities (including Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Memphis...
...union started picketing, and the company asked for an injunction to forbid picketing. District Judge Ferdinand Geiger decided that no labor dispute existed since no employes of the company were on strike, that therefore the Norris-LaGuardia Act did not apply, granted the injunction. The Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Judge Geiger's injunction...
...show the extent of the crisis. About 100 M. P.s who normally support the Government abstained from voting. Among them were Anthony Eden himself, Lord Cranborne (Eden's undersecretary who resigned with him) and Eden's prominent Conservative supporter, Winston Churchill. The Cabinet was finally upheld by a safe margin...
...Cabinet from holding their noses. But while they were doing so. he got them to swallow the general principle of British-German-French-Italian negotiation for a Four-Power Pact, envisioned by the British Prime Minister . The swallowing occurred at a session of the Chamber of Deputies which upheld Premier Chautemps and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos...
Thus, the original stand of the Students' Council made on February 16, deciding to remain within the law, was upheld. However, two resolutions protesting the Padlock Law to the Provincial and Federal governments still stand on the minutes of the McGill student society...