Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this point, Daily Editor Althen allowed Student Mitcham to publish another article that called Dwight Eisenhower an "old futzer." Haled before the university discipline committee, Mitcham was not even remotely chastised. Instead the committee upheld his right to express "a philosophical point of view," and ruled that the Goldwater article "could not be considered a personal attack...
...Academic freedom needs protection not only from those who do not believe in it, said Newton, but also from those who misuse it "to justify irresponsible actions which endanger the university." In a straw vote next day by 2,963 students, Newton's firing of Editor Althen was upheld by more than...
...laws." In 1954 the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment. In keeping with that decision, James Meredith's right to attend Ole Miss was affirmed by a federal district court, confirmed by the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and upheld by Justice Hugo Black, speaking with the authority of the U.S. Supreme Court...
Drastic Intervention. Monroe's successors not only upheld his doctrine-they extended it beyond the scope he originally gave to it. In 1845 James K. Polk declared, as the "settled policy" of the U.S., that "no future European colony or dominion shall with our consent be planted or established upon any part of the North American continent." Far broader was the Theodore Roosevelt extension of the Monroe Doctrine. Down through the 19th century, it was official U.S. policy that the Monroe Doctrine did not bar outside nations from using armed force against Latin American states to punish wrongs...
...time the U.S. Senate got through with it, the 1962 tax revision bill was not even a kissin' cousin to what the Kennedy Administration originally asked for. The Senate Finance Committee made precisely 174 changes in it, and most of them were upheld on the Senate floor. Viewing the ragged remnants, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon swallowed bravely, insisted that the bill was still "a significant first step toward the reform of our present out moded tax laws." But maybe Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire put it better. Said he bitterly: "It certainly is not a Kennedy bill...