Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House rule: never meddle in party primaries. Last week at Johnson City, Tenn., Republican Representative Carroll Reece, candidate for renomination, published a letter from President Hoover in which the President upheld the House's Muscle Shoals plan, commended Congressman Reece for rejecting the Senate plan. Sam W. Price, opposing Representative Reece in the G. O. P. primary, loudly resented the President's "intrusion." declared: "The time hasn't come when any man, before offering himself for office, must make a pilgrimage to the distant shrine of the great political boss and humbly climb up the golden stairway...
...Wright subsidiary) from which defendants were last week preparing an appeal. The Swetlands (Frederick and Raymond), who for 25 years have occupied a country estate near Richmond Heights, Ohio, asked an injunction against the airport, which was constructed across the road from them last year. Judge George P. Hahn upheld the right of the airport to operate, but enjoined its planes from flying lower than 500 ft. over the Swetland's property even in taking off or landing...
...Justice suspected that alleged graft by the "Ohio Gang" had-been deposited in the Midland National. When Senators Wheeler and Brookhart went to Washington Courthouse to inspect its records, Mai Daugherty defiantly refused them access to his bank. He was cited for contempt of the Senate. The Supreme Court upheld the citation long after the Daugherty issue had passed into history. Hence the case against him was dropped...
...Labor was against him because he upheld a "yellow-dog" contract...
...complete defense, it often serves to reduce damages, both compensatory and punitive.* Last week the appellate division of the New York Supreme Court took from Retraction much of its potency, by ruling that it could not be accepted in mitigation of compensatory damages. In so ruling the court upheld the appeal of William H. Kehoe from a verdict of 6? damages against the New York Herald Tribune.†He had sued for a compensatory $100,000. In 1926 the Herald Tribune published a story stating that one William Kehoe, onetime Manhattan corporation counsel and city official who had been convicted...