Word: upheld
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Next day from General Walsh's brassbound ranks emerged two dissenters. The 49th (California) Division's retired artillery commander, Major General John W. Guerard, 50, a peacetime lawyer and XXIV Corps South Pacific veteran, upheld the Army viewpoint. He observed that "the day has gone when any lunkhead could have a rifle shoved in his hands and some officer would march out in front and wave a saber and say 'Charge...
...Government ruled that Macy's had not been eligible to file under LIFO for the 1942-47 period, and Macy's brought the case to court. If this week's ruling by a Manhattan federal court is upheld, Macy's hopes to collect refunds for each year from fiscal 1942 through 1947. Alarmed by the possibility that other department stores may jump on the LIFO bandwagon, the Government announced that it will appeal the case to the Supreme Court if necessary...
...House of commons upheld Macmillan 302-273 after Defense Ministry Duncan Sandys announced...
STAVROS NIARCHOS won his Monte Carlo legal battle against his brother-in-law and Fellow Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Onassis. French arbitrator upheld Niarchos' claim that he was a partner with Onassis in buying control of famed Monte Carlo gambling casino's stock in 1953. Niarchos, claiming he gave $258,000 for deal and that stock has rocketed since then, was paid...
William Earl Fikes is a 30-year-old Alabama Negro under sentence of death for burglary with intent to rape the daughter of Selma, Ala.'s mayor in 1953. When Alabama's highest court upheld the decision, his lawyers brought the case to the U.S. Supreme Court on the ground that Fikes had been denied due process before and during his trial. After his arrest, they argued, Fikes had first been lodged in a local jail, then whisked away to a state prison, where he was held incommunicado for more than a week-during which state officers obtained...