Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film was obscene. Lawyers for the U.S. distributor. Times Film Corp., set out to prove that 1) the picture is not obscene, and 2) the city's censorship ordinance is unconstitutional. They did not get far on either count. Chicago Police Commissioner Timothy J. O'Connor upheld his citizens' board, explained to a master in chancery that The Game of Love was obscene because he had become sexually aroused while watching it. To the dismay of the lawyers, both a district court and a circuit court of appeals sided with the censors...
...freshman intramural football playoff game will be replayed, Adolph W. Samborski, Director of Intramural Athletics, announced yesterday. In making his decision, Samborski upheld Hurlbut's claim that the safety which gave Grays an 8 to 6 victory last Thursday should be nullified...
...much larger feeling of compliance with the law" in the South than many people realize. However, he pointed out that those holding moderate views are subjected to "economic, social, and physical" pressures. This situation, he said, "calls for courage to assert that compliance with the laws must be upheld...
FAIR-TRADE LAWS "are dead," says Discounter Stephen Masters, president of Masters Inc. (1956 sales: $45 million), which just won important legal battle. Supreme Court upheld lower-court decision that Masters' mail-order house in Washington, D.C., which has no fixed-price law, can sell goods below fair-trade prices in New York State, which does have such a law. Discounters can now ship cut-rate products by mail...
...promise that all the strikers will be rehired, and at one point it tried to organize a nationwide boycott of Kohler products. Last week, handing down a decision that may only draw the battle lines tighter in the longest major U.S. labor dispute, a National Labor Relations Board examiner upheld the union and charged Kohler with unfair labor practices...