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...Substitution of regular criminal procedure for a "Code Authority" in any coal legislation the U. S. Congress passes...
...Franklin Roosevelt last week came a rare pleasure. The Supreme Court has long seemed bent on limiting his authority, denying him powers which Congress was glad to yield. NRA and the Oil Code were both adjudged unconstitutional delegations of legislative power to the Executive. Last week the Court, sounding not unlike a Psalmist lauding the Almighty, proclaimed the President's supreme might & majesty in a "vast external realm...
...citizen the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November is a date that needs no explanation. Not so the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December. Never has this date meant anything special to anyone, but this year it did. Under an amendment to the U. S. Code, adopted in 1934 after the adoption of the Lame Duck Amendment of the Constitution, the Electoral College met then instead of on the first Wednesday in January...
...week Jew Frankfurter stood trial before five sombre-robed judges whose duty was to decide whether or not he had shot Saint Gustloff "in high emotion born of natural cause." If he had acted "in high emotion" the killing would be condoned under Article 50 of the Swiss Criminal Code. With the air of one enjoying the star part in a stage play, David Frankfurter declaimed: "I read Der Stunner, that notorious anti-Semitic German organ, in which there are written things too revolting for any human being to endure whether he be Jew or Gentile. I decided, however...
...watchers. that soft-hearted judges usually let them off in court when they pleaded that they were "only trying to make an honest living." The Board of Aldermen at once took the logical step for cities blighted by the car-watching racket, by drafting amendments to the Traffic Code and City Charter forbidding it. Before they were passed, to City Magistrate Anthony F. Burke was brought 18-year-old Negro John Preston who admitted soliciting to watch cars, pleaded that no one had to accept his services. "That's a lot of horsefeathers!'' snapped the Magistrate, giving...