Word: upheld
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...Hughes to join him in the ouster call. Hughes refused, siding loftily with Voltaire rather than Genovese, and forthwith nailed academic freedom into his platform. At Hughes's request, Rutgers' board of governors conducted an investigation, found that Genovese had done nothing to incur dismissal, and upheld his right to free speech. Nevertheless, the Genovese case turned into the Jersey equivalent of the Dreyfus affair...
Carried to its extreme, this Republican demonstration of the admirable belief that a true conviction should be stoutly upheld can lead only to the loss of elections. The fearful prospects led Richard Nixon, the one active Republican leader who seems acceptable to all factions, to lecture that "the liberals have got to stop trying to read the conservatives out of the party, and the conservatives have got to stop reading the liberals out of the party." On the other hand, the ferment within the party, brought to the right conclusion at the right time, could result in a stronger party...
Pakistan holds the superior moral position in the Kashmir conflict. At minimum, the Security Council resolution for a plebiscite should be upheld, and Moslem Kashmir should probably be included in a Moslem state. Yet American sentiment has swung noticeably toward India in the past few months for reasons which go beyond the simple territorial dispute...
Only a few hours after a Lowndes County jury had once again upheld white over right, Alabama's Segregationist Governor George Corley Wallace took to TV to assure his constituents that no people in all the U.S. surpassed them in "culture and refinement...
Moot but Significant. The court established its power of judicial review in 1960 in its very first case. Gerard Lawless, a suspected Irish Republican Army terrorist, whom Ireland locked up for three months without a hearing under "emergency" laws, had questioned the legality of his imprisonment. The court upheld Defendant Ireland's action as justified under the circumstances; in so doing, it also asserted its then disputed right to interpret the convention and pass upon the conduct of subscribing nations...