Word: upheld
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Higher Right. In the first case, the court upheld the disclosure provision of the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, which requires that Communist "action" and "front" groups must register with the Attorney General as subversive and foreign-dominated organizations. Registration means quite a lot. It obliges the party and its fronts to list the names, aliases and addresses of their officers, members and contributors, compels those organizations to identify all broadcasts and publications as Communist in origin, removes the organizations' tax exemptions, and forbids members to hold passports, Government jobs, defense-plant employment or labor union offices...
...Lower Level. In the second case, the court upheld the long disputed "membership clause" of the Alien Registration (Smith) Act of 1940. Ten years ago, in the Dennis case, the court had sustained the convictions of top Communist Party organizers under the Smith Act. Now it ruled that lower-level members may also be prosecuted...
...hardly surprising that the blue laws are controversial. What is surprising is that only last week did the U.S. Supreme Court get around to ruling on their constitutionality. In two key tests, the court upheld the laws and turned down the argument that they violate the principle of separation of church and state...
...could not be segregated if they crossed state lines, and five years later the court outlawed bus segregation as well. After the school desegregation decisions of 1954, ICC changed its ground rules, banned both segregated seating and "separate but equal" station restaurants and washrooms; the Supreme Court has since upheld the commmission. Last December the court stretched the principle further, ruled that station restaurants, even if not owned by the bus lines, must be integrated if they exist primarily to serve interstate passengers. As a result of earlier sit-in cases, the breach of the peace statutes that sent...
Died. Thomas Edward Murray, 69, outspoken Democratic member of the Atomic Energy Commission (1950-57), who upheld the AEC's 4-1 "no confidence" vote against Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1954, fought for Government development of atomic power plants, production of smaller nuclear weapons, cessation of hydrogen bomb tests, but last year urged the U.S. to resume underground tests to create a relatively "clean" neutron bomb as a "third-generation" weapon; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A leading Roman Catholic layman knighted twice by the church and father of eleven children, Murray...