Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Caught in the crossfire, Shastri temporized, upheld Hindi while at the same time promising that there would be no anti-Hindi discrimination. There will be equality in confusion: all civil-service applicants will probably be given exams in Hindi, English, and one of the other 13 major languages of India. In his small, dry voice, Shastri promised "a study of all aspects involved." Critics complained of his lack of leadership, but Shastri's very weakness and vagueness stopped the violence at least for the time being...
Balancing Interests. Doctrinaire conservatives were aghast at the appointment. Later on, Frankfurter infuriated dogmatic liberals, who had thought he was their captive. The man who had attacked the business-minded Supreme Court in the '20s now upheld the right of states to enjoin even peaceful picketing. The man who had denounced "Red raids" after World War I now sustained constitutionally debatable sanctions against Communists. Leading a 5-to-4 majority, Frankfurter was often the key supporter of cold-war security measures that appalled his judicial foe (but personal friend) Justice Hugo Black...
...justice will vote. But partisans of both sides failed to grasp his steady, if elusive, consistency. To spur "the self-confidence of a free people," he insisted on the primacy of legislative action. Thus, he lambasted the pre-1936 court for flouting the popular will. Thus, he later upheld anti-Communist laws based on detailed congressional findings. As he saw it, the court was no more entitled to second-guess the legislature in the '40s and '50s than it had been...
...Newman upheld TV's right to Milquetoast programming, even on newscasts: "I don't think it's realistic to expect organizations that live by advertising to pioneer in fields that may offend people." With some justice, he made news brevity on TV a virtue: "One reason we have such a great impact is that we edit. We edit to a degree that I think it is fair to say the New York Times does not. It doesn't edit very often; it compiles...
Richard D. Gerould '24, City Soliciter, upheld the Coop's position. In a letter to the nine councillors, Gerould cited a section in the building code that specifically excludes bridges