Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debate's end the House, by 279,136, upheld Otto Passman, upheld the Appropriations Committee's slash of foreign-aid funds from the President's $3.9 billion to $3.1 billion, including $435 million lopped off U.S. military aid to U.S. allies...
...subversive, had to register with the U.S. Government, disclose its revenue sources, names and addresses of its members. In 1956 the Supreme Court upset the ruling. In 1957 the U.S. Court of Appeals bounced out a similar ruling. But in Washington last week the Court of Appeals finally upheld the Subversive Activities Control Board, 2 to 1. "The preponderance of all the evidence," wrote Chief Judge E. Barrett Prettyman, is that the Communist Party of the U.S. follows the "program and policy of the Communist Party abroad...
...artistic preferences upheld when the United States Information Agency, stung by the boss's mild criticism of the modern art in the big U.S. fair in Moscow (TIME, July 13), hastily dropped its ban on U.S. art prior to 1918, gathered up 25 to 30 famed American canvases painted before the 20th century, rushed them off to Russia to supplement the moderns in the big show. Among the late starters: Gilbert Stuart (one of his portraits of Washington), George P. A. Healy (his study of a beardless Lincoln), Copley, Inness, Whistler, Sargent, Remington, Mary Cassatt...
...TIME, June 22), the Supreme Court called off the holiday by rejecting seven appeals based on the Jencks ruling. Written by Justice Felix Frankfurter (joined by Tom Clark, John Marshall Harlan, Charles Evans Whittaker, Potter Stewart), the main opinion in the seven cases upheld a statute passed by Congress in 1957 to narrow the Jencks decision. Its basic rules...
Last week the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld the FTC finding that Carter's basic therapeutic claim is "false and misleading," ordered "Liver" deleted from the trade name. Carter Products announced that it would appeal to the Supreme Court, continue the case that has already cost taxpayers more than...