Word: uphold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FAIR TRADE is out in New Mexico, 13th state to rule that manufacturer cannot dictate minimum retail prices. State Supreme Court threw out clause that says if one store signs a fixed-price pact all stores must uphold it. Exempted: fair-traded tobacco products and liquor...
...this then, the CCA also had a good issue with which to spark the speeches of the eighteen people it is endorsing for school committee and city council. Further, with its policy of making its candidates pledge to uphold a definite platform approved by CCA members, the association is a constructive force in electing good candidates to city offices...
...than his last, Faubus made inflammatory statement after inflammatory statement. He called off the National Guard in response to an injunction issued against him by U.S. District Judge Ronald Davies, spurning Judge Davies' alternative offer: to change the National Guard's orders so that the militia would uphold-rather than defy-law and order...
...join 2,000 whites at Little Rock Central High School. Two aides and a secretary watched silently as President Eisenhower, his decision made, picked up a pen and signed a historic document: it ordered Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson to use the armed forces of the U.S. to uphold the law of the land in Little Rock...
...just summary: "This conviction . . . that it was his transcendental mission to save Russia, an idea that was completely divorced from reality . . . was the tragedy of his life." Yet, in a sense, though Gogol could not save his own reason, he came close to saving Russia's. Hoping to uphold a dark orthodox authority, Gogol kindled flickering gleams of liberty. Those who came later established, in the name of freedom, a darker authority than Gogol could have dreamed...