Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fraternal meetings" with Ulbricht in Moscow last week, the answer came with announcement of a 20-year "friendship pact" between East Germany and the Soviet Union. The document pledged mutual assistance in case of aggression and spoke vaguely of West Berlin as "an independent political unit" but specifically upheld the Potsdam Treaty, which had established the Western presence in Berlin. To avoid any misunderstanding, Moscow had made it clear to Washington that the new treaty did not affect the West's position-and was therefore meaningless...
...court again to enjoin the county from haling him into criminal court. Circuit Judge Joe Eaton ruled that the caboose must go and that the county should pay Phillips $975 for his trouble. Neither side liked that decision either, and both appealed. But the district court of appeals upheld the lower court...
...loyalty oaths which required a state employee to swear that he was not a "subversive person" and would "promote undivided allegiance to the Government." A majority of the justices agreed with White, and the Supreme Court last week declared the vague Washington oaths unconstitutional. Noting that the court had upheld a similar Maryland statute, dissenting Justice Tom Clark found his colleagues' change of heart "unfortunate." Justice White's worries, he complained, "extract more sunbeams from cucumbers than did Gulliver's mad scientists...
...Concept. Last week the Supreme Court took a giant step toward resolving the question by agreeing to review its first miscegenation case since 1883, when it upheld an Alabama law against interracial sexual relations (Pace v. Alabama). Now at issue is a Florida law that forbids a man and woman who are not married to each other and are of different races to "habitually live in and occupy in the nighttime the same room...
...many businessmen, one good example of professionalism was Johnson's success in settling the long and complicated railroad labor hassle-and doing so without visibly bruising anyone. About 5,000 railroad firemen stand to lose their jobs immediately under terms of the Compulsory Arbitration law, whose constitutionality was upheld last week by the U.S. Supreme Court, but most will get severance checks or other railroad jobs. Labor chiefs applauded Johnson's concern for the displaced workers, and businessmen generally agreed that he had not overstepped the bounds of collective bargaining by persuasively pushing the settlement. Says Santa...