Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closing; how all agreed that his bank must not fail; how later, when action was started against the bank's stockholders to enforce their "double liability," General Dawes at once paid up his personal assessment of $5,200; how when the legality of the assessment was upheld; Dawes Brothers, Inc. paid up their liability of $1,027,000 six months before it was due. The author who thus gave the Daweses their due was New Dealer Jesse Holman Jones...
...flyweight champion, lost the second bout on the program to pint-sized Negro Bobby Carroll of Trenton. Only knockout of the evening was scored by Willie Smith, Harlem featherweight, who floored courageous Federico Cortonesi three times before the referee intervened in the second round. Otherwise Italian honor was dutifully upheld as Italy won six bouts to the U. S. five...
Nieman $5,000,000 bequest finally upheld by court...
...labored to persuade Congress to permit the Shoshones to sue the Government. From 1927 to 1933 he organized the case, presented it to the United States Court of Claims, which granted the Shoshones $2,500,000 in 1935. The Indians appealed to the Supreme Court, which upheld their right to ''just compensation." Said Justice Cardozo, "The power to control and manage properly the property and affairs of the Indians in good faith for their betterment and welfare does not extend so far as to enable the Government to give tribal lands to others...
...striking thing about this departing Court is that although in the first three years of the New Deal it invalidated law after law-NRA, AAA, hot oil, Guffey Coal-and upheld only one of importance - devaluation and the cancelation of the gold clause - it has not since last October overruled the New Deal on a single major case. Instead, it upheld in the past year: the arms embargo in the Chaco War, the new Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act, the Railway Labor Act, the Wagner Labor Law, the Social Security Law. Yet it was not until this winter that...