Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vistors to the Arboretum began to question it, too. The Overseers referred the question to the Edmonds Committee, which in turn requested the services of an independent lawyer. The Corporation retained Alfred P. Lowell, the first of the many legal guns that have reported on this issue. He upheld the scheme on almost every point...
...trial on charges of perjury. In the past such action has come only after evidences of exceptionally flagrant abuse, yet the Government's case against Youngdalh is a flimsy one. Of Youngdahl has a bias, it apparently did not affect his judgment, for in dismissing these charges he was upheld by an overwhelming 8 to 1 majority in the Court of Appeals. The two counts this court reinstated were so minor that the Government decided to drop its case rather than press for an indictment. The Court is now being asked to reconsider essentially the same counts that Youngdahl threw...
...come as no surprise that in the final jumble, marriage is at last upheld; matrimony has, after all, been around a long time. The Tender Trap, if there is justice along 45th Street, will...
Tradition Upheld. Burnet Maybank could be understood only as a Southern aristocrat. Few of the breed survived politically the triple ordeals of Civil War, Reconstruction and the post-Reconstruction revolt of the South's small farmers and small townsmen-those variously described as the wool-hats, the plain people, the Snopeses; the hillbillies or the pine hill men. Unlike them, Maybank trusted government because he was born to it. Unlike them, he distrusted big government because he wanted nothing from it for himself or his group-other than participation in responsibility and power...
...longer than many members of Britain's House of Lords can trace gentle ancestry, Maybank's forebears upheld in tidewater South Carolina the aristocratic tradition, serving the Crown, the Continental Congress, the Union, the Confederacy and, above all, South Carolina-as a colony, as a state and as an idea. Five of his ancestors were colonial or state governors, and Maybank himself was elected governor...