Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final effort to woo the industry under the wire Chairman Landis offered to accept "conditional" registration which would be null & void should the courts eventually find that the powermen had really surrendered their constitutional rights by filing. Pointedly hinting at the serious liabilities involved if the Act were upheld, SEC wheedled: "No possible ground in reason remains for any company to fail to file a simple notification and registration under these circumstances as a sheer precautionary matter for the protection of its investors...
...their debate held at Waterbury, Connecticut, last night the Yale speakers downed the Crimson by a 3-2 vote of the judges. Harvard upheld the affirmative on the subject, "Resolved: That the Roosevelt administration is worthy of the confidence of the American people...
...affirmative was upheld by W. Tucker Dean '37 and Hubert H. Nexon '37 while the negative was taken by J. Ernest Richardson of Dalhousie University and William B. Morrisey of New Brunswick University...
...Kellogg Pact. In adhering to the Pact she claims the same reservations as were made by Britain, in effect that the Pact does not bind where the signatory is obliged to take measures in one of its "spheres of vital interest." Absurd on its face but capable of being upheld years hence by some august tribunal of international lawyers is Italy's claim that the Pact, as interpreted by onetime Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg permits almost any act of "self defense" and that Italy did not formally open her campaign against Ethiopia until after the Ethiopian mobilization...
...Richard Hauptmann, who kidnapped and murdered Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. near Hopewell in March 1932, was caught with ransom money in The Bronx in September 1934, was convicted and sentenced to death at Flemington in February 1935. Unanimously the 13 voting members of New Jersey's highest court upheld the trial court on all 16 contested points of law, declared that the German carpenter's conviction was "one to which the evidence inescapably led." In a forlorn effort to save Hauptmann from the electric chair sometime before Christmas, defense counsel considered appealing to the U. S. Supreme Court...