Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Uphold, Not Upset. No sooner had the three school boards acted than the pressures began building toward a blowoff. Fiery crosses burned at night near Charlotte. A hooded Klansman promised to "muster 50,000 men by the time schools begin to open." Fanatic John Kasper of New Jersey roared into Greensboro, Charlotte and Winston-Salem, harangued his followers to drive school-board members to "nervous breakdowns, heart attacks and suicide...
...stations last week, Hodges expressed his personal feelings: "I think the U.S. Supreme Court made a tragic mistake." But, he said, "we are forced to recognize that that court has the final word. [We] do not like lawlessness." Luther Hodges meant to use the power of the state to uphold, not upset, the law of the land...
...Supreme Court went all the way back to an opinion written by John Marshall, the third Chief Justice of the U.S., to uphold the Administration's law foundation for the status-of-forces agreements. Paraphrasing Marshall, the court said: "A sovereign nation has exclusive jurisdiction to punish offenses against its laws committed within its borders unless it expressly or impliedly consents to surrender its jurisdiction." Marshall, C.J., stated this as a legal absolute...
...under the status-of-forces agreements, the U.S. is dealing with the intricate problems in a positive way that is perhaps unique in the history of global powers; it is following the rule of law rather than of prideful chauvinism. In heeding the natural desire of its allies to uphold the integrity of their laws, the U.S. is contributing to allied self-respect and thereby to the strength of the coalition. By watching vigilantly over the lot of its men in foreign courts, the U.S. is extending around the world its concern for and its principles of justice...
...Many Babies. By last week, with the situation thoroughly out of hand, official party publications were full of pleas for a return to conjugal continence. "Shameless licentiousness," cried one writer, "is the capitalist way. We young people must uphold the principles of Communist morality." But it was not morality that was worrying the minds of the practical men-and women-at the head of Peking's government as they watched the effect of their new marriage law on millions of young people suddenly freed from the taboos of their ancestors. It was the simple fact that the situation...