Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blaisdells went to court, asked for a two-year moratorium in accordance with a new law passed by the Minnesota Legislature. The case reached the U. S. Supreme Court where it was regarded as a test of the legality of all governmental emergency powers. Last week the Supreme Court upheld Minnesota, 5-to-4. Prime conclusion: an economic emergency, like fire, flood or earthquake, gives a state power to set aside contracts...
...able to learn he has made a perfect record. He has upheld the dignity of the judicial branch of the country in the most hectic year in American politics. He has not blurted. Sagaciously he has made no appearance to the public outside the administering of oath of office to President Roosevelt, which was his duty. And finally he has in my opinion cooperated with the present administration by weighing the element of time against its perpetual offspring -change. C. H. McWlLLIAMS Wilmington. Ohio Sirs...
...entitled to demand and receive interest and capital payments in gold at the par value of the pound.* "The original intention of the contract was to prevent the loss from falling upon the bondholder should sterling become depreciated," argued counsel for the bondholders, and this view the Lords upheld. Because the U. S. Supreme Court gives great weight to pertinent decisions at the fountainhead of Anglo-Saxon law, holders of U. S. gold clause bonds hoped that last week's decision will help them when their suits come up in the U. S. Supreme Court. The Commons- ¶Weighed...
...much more power and even broader administration that the NRA has already attempted. No careful critic, who has taken the time to really study the act, can say that it is unconstitutional. Leading jurists all over the country, including Professor Thomas Reed Powell of the Harvard Law School, have upheld the legality of the act, and the Florida judge who decided against the government did not claim that the NRA was unconstitutional, he only stated that he thought the administration was attempting to control too much in the especial case which he was judging...
...reputed fee of $25,000. Astride Financier Whitney's Ballyhoo Bey, Sloan won a masterful race, quickly returned to his glories abroad. His downfall came when the English Jockey Club revoked his license on charges that he had bet on his own races. U. S. racing associations respectfully upheld the English action, unhorsed Jockey Sloan at home...