Word: upheld
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...Administrative Council of the City University of New York has upheld the cancellation on the grounds that inviting a Communist to speak on campus would violate the University's obligation to "obey the laws of the state and the nation." The American Civil Liberties Union has prepared a brief contesting the Council's legal analysis of the problem, but the case has not yet been re-opened...
...view that nothing worthwhile would be left "afterward," and that its own principles must keep the West from using nuclear weapons, is upheld by H. Stuart Hughes, professor of history at Harvard, a grandson of Charles Evans Hughes and one of the organizers of the Committee of Correspondence, a "discussion network" dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear weapons. By any measurement, Hughes's arguments do not represent a large segment of U.S. public opinion, but they do epitomize much of the moral confusion the West has suffered in contemplating The Bomb. Historian Hughes bases his case...
...quit school at 16, now wears a stubble beard to cover his youth. As a Royal Air Force enlisted man, he started a bus service from his base to London that underpriced the R.A.F.'s own buses. When the bus line protested in court, the judge upheld Bloom with a declaration that has since become Bloom's motto: "It's no sin to make a profit...
...Next day he delivered his own questionnaire in writing to the Russian Ambassador to Tokyo, Nikolai Fedorenko. His questions: "Does the Soviet government really intend to take up the power policy pursued by the imperialists? Just what is the relationship between such policy and the one of peaceful coexistence upheld by the Soviet government...
...Abata who finally rallied anti-Glimco forces, organized an independent union, began a battle to turn out Pal Joey. Some of his aides were roughed up, and Abata himself received so many threats that he asked for and got constant police guard. Finally, last May, the NLRB upheld Abata's contention that the Teamsters and cab companies had been guilty of unfair labor practices. The NLRB ordered an election...