Word: upheld
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peculiar but significant place in U.S. society. The rackets, like college football, the labor movement, and the care and breeding of Christmas trees, had inevitably become big business. The brain had replaced the muscle, the injunction had become more potent than the Tommy gun, and surviving warriors of prohibition upheld the status quo. Frank Costello, "legitimate businessman," dramatically typified the change...
...thinking about it ever since the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled on the suit of Mrs. Vashti McCollum against the board of education of Champaign, Ill. Atheist McCollum had sued to prevent the board from making school premises available for religious instruction of pupils, and the Supreme Court had upheld her (TIME, March 22, 1948). The decision had set in question the released-time systems of almost every state, but for the organized Secularists this was not enough...
...suit up to the U.S. Supreme Court. He had pledges of cooperation from the Motion Picture Association of America and the American Civil Liberties Union. It was true that in 1915 the U.S. Supreme Court had found the fledgling movies a vehicle of entertainment rather than, opinion, and had upheld state censorship laws as no violation of freedom. But only last year, in another opinion, the Supreme Court observed that the movies were clearly entitled to the Constitution's protection of free press...
...peace, at Annapolis, Tripoli, Mobile Bay, Santiago, the Philippine Sea, Norfolk and San Diego, the pride of the Navy grew. In intense patriotism, dedicated Navy officers held two words to be all but synonymous-the Navy and the Nation. They upheld one to defend the other-and, after the disaster at Pearl Harbor, fought the biggest, most imaginative and magnificent sea war in history. When peace was won, and they were asked to mothball most of the great and glorious fleet and surrender power and prerogatives, minds shaped by the Navy's great years found it hard to obey...
...government] as Cromwell said to the Long Parliament: 'You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. In the name of God, Go!'" The Times: "Mr. Attlee has to ask himself whether the resolve to remain in office can now be upheld. It is scarcely conceivable that the galloping consumption of the nation's wealth and strength can be more than momentarily checked by the government's proposals." The Nottingham Journal: "Mr. Attlee scatters a handful of grit and tintacks over the path we ought...