Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearst, Publisher Motoyama was a worker for international harmony, a liberal and independent patriot. He opposed the attack on Shanghai, upheld the occupation of Manchuria...
...lease of The Big Four and Michigan Central. So, he had to sue. And what's more he had to take his suit to the high court of Washington. Of course the Supreme Court, by solemn decision of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes handed down last week, upheld the New York Central leases. But Old Man Venner was the gainer-because he had carried out his threat of suit so that the next corporation he attacks will know that what Old Man Venner says Old Man Venner means...
...shadowy chambers of the Supreme Court nine old white men reviewed the case of seven young Negroes convicted at Scottsboro, Ala., spring before last, of raping two white girl hoboes in a box car. Political libertarians called the death sentences "legal lynching," but Alabama's Supreme Court had upheld the verdict of the lower bench. Gratified were Liberals when the U. S. Supreme Court handed down its opinion. Seven-to-two it decided that the Scottsboro Negroes, "young, illiterate, ignorant," had not had adequate legal representation at their original trial, were entitled to another. "Even intelligent persons," said Associate...
...other depression has the Government taken a hand. But this time, after the first shock, in the autumn of 1929, the President called a conference of business leaders. His concern was for the working people. . . . The President's foresight and prompt action upheld the wage scale for a year and a half in the face of constantly diminishing profits. Then the Government created emergency jobs for workers who otherwise would have had none...
...decree of President von Hindenburg is annulled and Premier Braun & Ministers are empowered to represent the Government of Prussia. On the other hand the chancellor's appointment under the same Presidential decree of Dr. Franz Bracht as Acting Federal Commissioner to govern the State of Prussia is upheld. In effect the Supreme Court decision recognizes simultaneously two conflicting authorities in Prussia...