Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress. Appeals Judge Learned Hand, temporarily back from retirement, ruled that that was right. "An outrage!" shouted Irving Saypol. Retorted Judge Hand: "These men are not likely to abscond." Cried Saypol: "What -after eight have absconded!" Saypol lost this round, but this week he won the next. Judge Ryan upheld Saypol's contention that the Communists' bail was tainted. Unless they can get bail from another source, the Communists will have to await trial behind bars...
Empiricism Upheld...
...Contempt-of-court sentences against six of the Communists' lawyers were upheld...
...Conspiracy convictions against eleven party leaders were upheld...
...President's manner was relaxed and his talk unrehearsed, but always he upheld his Administration's foreign policy, reviewed "successes" in Greece, Turkey, Berlin and Korea. He rehashed the MacArthur story, explained ruefully how he thought his differences with MacArthur had been patched up at Wake, was at his most emphatic when he declared his Administration had kept the U.S. out of war for the time being. He ended by asking his guests to support his leadership. On one occasion, inviting guests to shoot questions at him, he said: You can give me hell, if you want...