Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Argument. Attorneys pleading against cancellation of the gold clauses presented similar arguments: Contracts had been entered into for the payment of gold and Congress had set them aside. Either Congress had no right under the Constitution to set those contracts aside, or if it had the right to forbid payment in gold, the claimants were at least entitled to compensation in devalued dollars for the value of the gold denied them...
Questions. A tradition of the Supreme Court is that the Attorney General shall not be interrupted in his argument by questions from the bench. Therefore the real excitement did not begin until Mr. Cummings had finished his stump speech. Then the Justices who had asked only a few questions of the Government's opponents began to pop questions right & left at Messrs. Maclean and Reed. Some court room observers got an impression that the Justices' questions were hostile to the Government's case. Others felt that the Court, friendly to the Government's position, was trying...
...Attorney General Cummings, fearful that the case was going against him, made an unscheduled second argument in which he praised abrogation of the gold clauses as a piece of great and well-considered statesmanship, but offered no new arguments to show that the Government's action was legal...
...hold their markets. In fact, to most manufacturers guaranteed prices promise heaven on earth so long as the public does not find such prices a barrier to buying. Hence man by man, hour by hour, Business rose to argue and protest against what NRA proposed. The substance of the argument was put on its highest plane by George A. Sloan, head of the Cotton Textile Code Authority: ''Maximum hours and minimum wage provisions, useful and necessary as they are in themselves, do not prevent price demoralization. While putting the units of an industry on a fair competitive level...
...Legion for demanding immediate payment of the Bonus: 1) it is going to be paid sooner or later anyhow and the Government may as well wipe out its debt now; 2) payment now will help recovery. Both reasons are highly susceptible to mathematics. The mathematics of the recovery argument is simple. The Legion has a table prepared by Congressman Patman of how much Bonus money would go into every state: New York, $221,000,000; Pennsylvania, $156,000,000; Illinois, $141,000,000; Missouri, $61,000,000; Georgia, $32,000,000; Maine, $12,000,000; Nevada, $1,771,846. According...