Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have breached the ivy-covered walls at last," said Edward Sullivan, president of the AFL local, who expressed confidence that the protest would be upheld. The union has attempted to organize H.U.E.R.A. members several times during the past five years...
...state's Blue Laws have been called anachronistic and confining, but they have been upheld as recently as 1947. And, after all, even though you may not spend your Sunday hunting or collecting bills, the courts have specifically held that it is permissable to accept a dog as a gift...
Reluctantly, Washington was bending under the pressure. Last week the parties to the embargo-upheld by all NATO nations (except Iceland) and by Japan-were studying secret U.S. proposals to remove some peaceful items from the China embargo list. In return the U.S. wants to lengthen the list of items embargoed to Russia, tighten the "exceptions procedure" by which Britain and others have sent certain strategic goods into Russia. The U.S. would continue to have no dealings with China but would agree to China trade by its allies...
...Supreme Court wrote: "Surely it cannot be supposed that the question of contempt of the authority of a court of the U.S., committed by-a disobedience of its orders, is triable, of right, by a jury." North Carolina Supreme Court Judge Ervin himself on four occasions upheld the right of the courts to try for contempt-without juries...
...long battle between public and private powermen for the right to develop Hell's Canyon finally ended. By refusing last week to review the case for public power, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Federal Power Commission's 1955 judgment in favor of private power. That judgment ruled in effect that private enterprise is preferable when it stands ready to serve the public interest quickly and efficiently...