Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Party-Lining Baritone Paul Robeson, 58, battling for six years to get a passport in order to visit behind the Iron Curtain, was as far from the promised land as ever. The U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a dismissal of Robeson's suit against Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Robeson's perennial dilemma: until he unclams about his past and present Red ties he will not even be considered for a passport...
Abolitionist Charles Sumner, objecting to the treatment accorded Sarah took up her case. There was no 14th Amendment yet, but an 1845 state law had made it actionable to exclude any child unlawfully from public school. The case reached the State Supreme Court, where Chief Justice Shaw upheld the principle of segregation. His decision, in part, ran as follows...
...plan was strenuously opposed by the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects and other organizations, and brought forth cries of sacrilege from Manhattan Architect Lorimer Rich, designer of Arlington's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, who upheld the Capitol facade as an "invaluable record of our early architecture which should always remain." The building as it stands, the architects argued, is a living record of the work of such men as Thornton, British-born Benjamin Henry Latrobe (responsible for the handsome east fagade), and Boston's Charles Bulfinch (chief restorer of the Capitol after...
Five court justices unanimously upheld a previous court decision denying the anti-Melish forces a temporary injunction to restrain Melish from conducting services. Left waiting outside the church: the Rev. Dr. Herman S. Sidener, designated as Holy Trinity's new rector by Bishop James P. DeWolfe of Long Island...
...refuse to bargain with a union whose officers refuse to comply with the Taft-Hartley law's non-Communist affidavit. In the other, the court refused to rule on a lower-court decision that company stock purchase plans are subject to collective bargaining, thus in effect upheld the decision...