Word: upheld
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...trial examination and later when called upon to do so by Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan, who thereupon cited her for contempt of court and sentenced her to ten days in jail. On appeal, the case went to the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which recently upheld Judge Ryan's decision. Indications are that the Supreme Court will now be asked to rule on the questions raised in the two decisions...
...Harvard Eisenhower Young Republican Club, cited an 1850 Massachusetts case in which the Supreme Court ruled for continued school segregation. He also mentioned the Plessy vs. Ferguson case (Louisiana) of 1896, concerning a mulatto who refused to ride in a separate Negro railroad car. The Supreme Court upheld public segregation laws in that case...
Though modifying them in detail, the Senate upheld in principle two Housewritten provisions that President Eisenhower bluntly and publicly blasted (TIME, June 9). These provisions 1) give Congress a veto over transfer or abolition of any "major combatant function" in peacetime, and 2) authorize any service chief to go up to Capitol Hill on his own and make any "recommendations." But the Senate deleted altogether a House provision that the President had rapped as a "legalized bottleneck": the requirement that the Defense Secretary's authority over the separate services must be exercised "through" the service secretaries...
...great problem is to create enough investments to speed up our development." Lopes began his job by tactfully lunching with a group of nationalist Deputies. Before the lunch, Lopes was being called a "hired lackey of the trusts." After the lunch, where Lopes winningly upheld the need for foreign capital, the attack faded in all but the Reddest of newspapers. Then he got down to top priority work-negotiating a $150 million emergency loan with the U.S. Export-Import Bank...
...into a quarrel with International Association of Machinists officials and was expelled. In plain violation of NLRB rules the I.A.M. hiring hall refused to refer him to another job. The California courts gave Gonzales $7,500 in back pay, $2,500 in punitive damages, and the Supreme Court upheld the awards...