Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whether Dr. Leader's basic right of free speech could be curtailed in the name of loyalty to the county society. Dr. Leader argued that on a public issue, his duties as a citizen took precedence over his obligations as a physician. But last week the T.M.A. upheld the censorious Harris County Medical Society...
...saint, implied that Gandhi himself would today favor the dynamics of strength: "America's right, our obligations, for that matter, to maintain a respectable establishment for defense?our duty to join in company with like-thinking peoples for mutual self-defense?would, I am sure, be recognized and upheld by the most saintly men ... In a democracy, people should not act like sheep but jealously guard liberty of action." At his words, countless thousands of Gandhi's disciples broke into cheers...
Last week Connecticut's highest court, the Supreme Court of Errors, upheld the birth-control ban for the third time in the past two decades. Before the court was a package of four related test-case suits, brought by Dr. C. Lee Buxton, chairman of the Yale Medical School's obstetrics and gynecology department, and three patients who had medical reasons for wanting to prevent conception. Plaintiff Buxton claimed a right, as a physician, to "practice his profession free from unreasonable restraint." The three patients claimed a right to the benefit of a physician's advice...