Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news, Wilbert Robinson could not have been much startled. His mortal enemy, Stephen W. McKeever, chairman of the board of directors, has been urging his discharge for years. Another faction in the Club's ownership, composed of heirs to the estate of the late Charles H. Ebbets, upheld Robinson till this year when the Robins, favored to win the pennant, finished fourth...
...fines" up to $10,000 Mex. ($2,500) for the "crime" of selling Japanese goods. Convicted shopkeepers who said they could not pay were kicked back into Anti-Japan Association jails, kept there on persuasive starvation rations. This queer kind of justice, flagrantly illegal in every way, was everywhere upheld by Chinese public opinion, the opinion of one-fourth of mankind...
...Court of the U. S., written by Liberal Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1905: "People will endeavor to forecast the future and to make agreements according to their prophecy. Speculation of this kind by competent men is the self-adjustment of society to the probable. . . . This court has upheld sales of stock for future delivery...
Supreme Court has upheld the validity of the law; the U. S. Supreme Court has refused to review that decision. Nonetheless the farmers have continued to protest. As another testing season came around Iowa farmers had worked themselves into dirty tempers. Injunctions were issued restraining 40 of the farmers from interfering with the tests...
...Chance-Vought Corp. for their commercial planes. The Fairchild com pany settled out of court this year. The Vought case is pending in New York. The claim against the Government lay dormant until recently when Claims Com missioner Hayner H. Gordon reopened the case. Should his claim be upheld. Inventor Esnault-Pelterie was reputedly pre pared to demand $2,500,000 royalties from the Government alone, untold sums from commercial builders in future suits...