Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national committee upheld a ruling of Chairman Guy Gabrielson refusing to review the cases of seven district contests which had been handed to Taft delegates by the Jackson-controlled state committee. After that, it placed Taftmen in the four delegate-at-large seats. Then, as if fearing that the state committee had gone too far, it gave the two seats from the rumpless Third District back...
...outlaw their kind in Uttar Pradesh, largest in population of the 28 states. Last year the bill was passed, and the zamindars hired the best lawyers they could find to prove it unconstitutional. Led by Nehru, India's parliament amended the constitution against the zamindars. The Supreme Court upheld Nehru. Last week Uttar Pradesh's law came into force...
...Matinee," he says. He grudgingly wears a hearing aid, bolts his food, and smokes recklessly. (He prefers his own brand of cigars, and when he is out to dinner and cigars are passed, politely takes one, pockets it, and cunningly extracts one of his own.) The man who upheld Prohibition as his stern executive duty now drinks two Martinis before dinner. He relaxes in the evening by preoccupiedly playing gin rummy or canasta with some of his group of loyal friends...
Judge Christenberry upheld the Government charge that the T-P and States unit rates were taking ads away from the Item, since few New Orleans advertisers could afford not to advertise in the TP, by far the biggest paper in the city. Said he: "The Times-Picayune, because of its monopoly position, has been able to force buyers of advertising space to purchase what they do not want, space in the States, in order to obtain what they require, space in the Times-Picayune...
...guarantees of free expression. In early 1951, after pressure was brought by Catholic groups, New York State's Board of Regents banned Roberto Rossellini's controversial The Miracle (TIME, Feb. 26, 1951). The courts of New York, citing the U.S. high tribunal precedent, found the film "sacrilegious," upheld the censorship...