Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thus upheld by the Supreme Court, Dean Madden was re-elected president at last week's stockholders' meeting. Among other directors re-elected were Dean Dexter Simpson Kimball of the College of Engineering of Cornell University (board chairman); Leo Greendlinger (vice president, treasurer and general manager); Dr. Lee Galloway and Bernard Lichtenberg (vice presidents...
Judgment. Inquisitor Seabury awaited the judgment anxiously. If the high court upheld the decisions of the lower courts, he would be provided with a potent stick to prod from the city's political jungle a host of important facts hitherto lurking behind Immunity. If the decision were reversed, Reform would be rendered almost impotent. Each time it wanted to make a reluctant witness talk it would have to promise him a pardon from the Governor. Even then, the witness would not have to accept the pardon...
...around should find reflection in lower rates, that industrial consumers get gas cheaper from Cities Service than the city does. The company maintains that the Kansas and Missouri Public Service Commissions have no power to regulate pipelines since they do an interstate business. The courts seemed to have upheld this but it has not been entirely clarified and last week the Kansas Public Service Commission had investigators ready to go over the Doherty system. A bitter point with Governor Woodring is that in Oklahoma, Cities Service's retail rate is around 50¢ per 1,000-cu. ft., that it jumps...
...above that $25. Lafayette Jackson, owner of a grocery chain of 225 stores on which he was taxed $5,443 as compared to $675 for the same number of individual stores, appealed to the Federal Court on the ground that the tax was discriminatory. A circuit court upheld his contention. But the Supreme Court overruled him, validated the Indiana tax law in a 5-to-4 decision (Justices Hughes, Brandeis, Holmes, Stone. Roberts versus Van Devanter, McReynolds, Sutherland, Butler). Justice Roberts wrote the majority opinion...
...Without dissent the entire Supreme Court upheld the right of Ohio to tax a public service corporation on natural gas it brought in from two adjoining States, regardless of the constitutional prohibition against a tax on interstate commerce...