Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, Powers and Bradford locked horns for the first time in what was a minor but prophetic application of force. The Times had fired a printer for cussing his foreman, and an arbitration board upheld his dismissal. But the paper, working toward a new contract with the I.T.U.. and aware that the printer's dismissal was an inflammatory side issue, reinstated him anyway...
...think that the police should be upheld in their belief that they are the law and that whatever they do is right," Washington continued. "I deserve respect merely because I am a person. I have seem others who were beaten without anyone's ever hearing about it. This is a brutality case that will be heard. "My nose is broken, my eye was blackened, I have to use crutches, because I wasn't a 'yessir, boss...
...example, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts recently upheld a statute which declares that landlords of dwellings with more than three tenants may not refuse to "rent or otherwise deny accomodation to any person because of race, creed, color or national origin...
...York's La Guardia Airport on Aug. 15, 1958, crashed while approaching Nantucket Island, Mass., and killed 25. One New York passenger's widow, Mrs. John S. Pearson, sued Northeast in a New York court, won $160,000. When the airline appealed, a three-judge federal panel upheld its claim that since the crash occurred in Massachusetts (where claims at the time were limited to $15,000), the case should have been tried there. But the full court, in a rehearing, reversed the decision. Said U.S. Judge Irving R. Kaufman, speaking for the majority: "Modern conditions make...
Unanimously upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals: the conviction of William F. Rickenbacker, 34, an editor of the conservative National Review and son of Eastern Air Lines Board Chairman Eddie Rickenbacker, for refusing to fill out the 1960 census questionnaire. Contending that the form was "snoopy" and "an unnecessary invasion of my privacy" (because it asked such things as salary, manner of sewage disposal), Rickenbacker vows to take the case to the Supreme Court. At stake: a $100 fine and suspended 60-day jail sentence...