Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assure that last week's decision by the executive committee is upheld by the full Congress Committee (a gathering of more than 200 who almost invariably do as they have been told), St. Gandhi last week left his rustic village retreat, came jolting into Wardha on a bullock cart. Had the Mahatma expected opposition, he would have first half starved himself, then insisted upon walking instead of riding in a bullock cart, would have staggered into the Congress Committee and inspired his disciples with their oft-repeated "pangs of remorse for the suffering we cause the Mahatma...
Would he sign if the Supreme Court upheld the ruling? "Whenever the law says I have to sign a contract and the law is properly upheld, then I'll have to sign a contract. . . . I am trying to tell the distinguished committee I won't sign a contract with an irresponsible, racketeering, violent, communistic organization like the C.I.O. and until the law requires me to do so, I am not going...
...equivalent of a $6 tax increase for each $1,000 of real and personal property value on' Milwaukee's assessment rolls. What made the award of national interest was that fortnight ago a favorable decision in a similar patent infringement suit against Chicago's Sanitary.District was upheld in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Activated Sludge's compensation in that case may make Milwaukee's payment look like small change. All patents which Activated Sludge controlled in the U. S. have now run out their 17 years, but the company still has suits pending...
...found himself publicized as an intermediary in procuring a harem wife from among Alabama womanhood, promptly sued the Post for $100,000, claiming he had been libeled. The Post filed a demurrer on the grounds that White had suffered no damage and that the suit was nonactionable, was upheld in Circuit Court. White appealed to the Alabama Supreme Court, which reversed the lower court and ordered the case remanded in a resounding opinion by Justice Thomas E. Knight Sr.: "The purchase of a girl from her parents, to be carried to some distant country to complete an Arab...
Under Pennsylvania law the informer of such funds could collect 25% of what is left after the State pays its lawyers to prosecute the suit. Technicalities over the $160,000 have at long last reached the U. S. Supreme Court whose rulings in comparable cases have upheld the escheat rights of the States. Spurred by the distant glint of a $34,000 commission on the $160,000, Prospectors Edelman & Creskoff went sluicing up the creeks of other Pennsylvania escheat tributaries. Taking corporations capitalized at above $2,000,000, they analyzed corporation statements and manuals, traced unclaimed dividends, stocks, bonds, interest...