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Show COURT DENIES FORDREVIEW WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UP) Th supreme court today refused to reconsider Its decision bitterly criticised by th Ford Motor company com-pany holding a Texas franchise tax on corporations to be constitutional. consti-tutional. The Ford company had originally attacked the Texas levy as discriminatory. dis-criminatory. When the supreme court last month upheld the tax. It filed a brief vigorously assailing the court's decision snd asking for reconsideration of the case. Todsy the supreme court denied the request for reconsideration. As Is customary In such cases. It offered no reason for Its action. Ths court rarely grants requests tor reconsideration of Its decisions. Other court action: Dismissed ths appeal of New York City seeking reversal of a state high court decision holding the city' 3 per cent sales tax invalid in-valid as applied to oil sold for fuel In transatlantic vessels. Ths esse dismissed waa an action against the Gulf Oil corporation. Four others. Involving th validity of tha tax as applied to Interstate commerce, remain to be settled. Granted th national labor relation rela-tion board's petition for review of a First circuit court of appeala decision de-cision refusing to direct enforcement enforce-ment of an order against the Bradford Brad-ford Dyeing association (U. S. A.), Bradford, R. L |