Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upheld by the State's highest court on the last day of 1936 in the case of Fearon v. Treanor was the section of the law banning breach of promise suits. Last week in the U. S. Supreme Court Nurse Catherine Fearon of New York filed an appeal seeking to have New York's anti-heart balm act declared unconstitutional. Cited by her lawyer was Article I, section 10 of the U. S. Constitution: "No State shall.. . pass any . . . law impairing the obligation of contracts. . . ." In the Hanfgarn v. Mark opinion New York's Court...
...longest luncheon sessions on convention records. From one o'clock to four, while a thunderstorm swept hail over the Capital, members watched their cigaret butts accumulate, groped to formulate ideas out of their resentment at the long disregarded law which the Supreme Court had upheld. Across Lafayette Park in the White House, President Roosevelt was giving his last press conference before entraining for New Orleans (see p. 15). At the convention tables, the Chamber-men to whom he had refused for the third successive year to send any greeting throbbed with approval as President B. C. Heacock of Caterpillar...
What the conduct of privileged youth is today will largely, perhaps crucially, determine whether this hope goes glimmering in the wreck of the American order, or whether it shall be upheld by staunch proof that men of special education and technical competence recognize their obligations to society and will fulfill them as men, not as children. They can riot if they choose, but their own rioting sooner or later will be turned against them. They may have fun now at public expense if they will. But it is fun that tempts fate...
...Congress the President sent a message accompanied by a letter from Attorney General Cummings opining that since the Supreme Court had upheld the State of Washington's Minimum Wage Law (TIME, April 6), the City of Washington's similar law was, after 14 years in limbo, restored to the statute books. If Congress wished to revise the Act, it was time to take action before the District of Columbia Commissioners appointed a Minimum Wage Board. Promptly Ruth Carnett, waitress, claiming she has been paid $10.40 a week instead of $16.50 as required by law sued her employer...
...these decisions went against the Wagner Labor Act the political hue & cry against the Court would be raised once more. If the decisions upheld the Act, they would forecast a new era in the labor relations of U. S. industry: henceforth no industry affected by this law could refuse to bargain collectively with its employes, discharge them for joining a union, force a company union upon them, or interfere with their organizing. To Labor, to industry, to politics the outcome was momentous...