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...Principal aim of the Guffey Act was to revive the NRA Coal Code. Since that code was not constitutional, Congress had to make certain substantive changes. Instead of telling the NRAdministrator to write whatever code he thought was best for the industry, Congress directed by law that the code should fix wages and hours of miners, should require collective bargaining, should regulate coal prices. To compel the industry to obey the code by penalizing disobedience, a 15% tax on coal production was imposed. However, any producer who operated under the code was to get back...
...Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, who argued for the Schechter Brothers. This time he argued for James Walter Carter of Carter Coal Co. with mines in the Virginias. Another weapon was Charles Irvin Dawson, who before he resigned as a Federal judge in Kentucky had declared the NRA coal code unconstitutional. Last week his clients were 19 Kentucky coal companies whose case was joined with that of Coalman Carter. Other weapons were arguments used in overthrowing NRA, that prices, wages, hours, etc.''were not subject to Federal tinkering under the power of Congress "to regulate commerce . . . among...
...trouble, as 1 see it, lies in the education system of most colleges which practically compels students to cheat. Too much emphasis is placed on exams and not on daily work. I am a graduate of Penn State '28, which is noted for its Penn Stale Honor Code. Still there is cheating. Yet there is no cheating in classes conducted by profs who play fair with the students. I know men who would not cheat or aid a cheater in one prof's class yet who would cheat plenty in another class...
Under California's penal code, any person who "unlawfully and maliciously deprives a human being of a member of his body, or disables, disfigures or renders it useless" is guilty of mayhem, punishable by one to 14 years' imprisonment. Last week in San Francisco, Drs. Tilton Edwin Tillman and Samuel George Boyd were arrested for mayhem, released on bail. On the ground that she was mentally incompetent, Dr. Tillman advised and Dr. Boyd had performed an operation sterilizing Ann Cooper Hewitt, 21, great-granddaughter of the late great Philanthropist Peter Cooper, granddaughter of the late great Statesman Abram...
...ways to you-all the cruelties and blind waste of this universe. But this I can surely say: that it is better to be happy than sad, better to be active than impotent." He admits that he has taken a good deal on faith: "I have made my ethical code out of the hunger and thirst after social righteousness. Such a formula makes life comparatively simple, and it makes religion simple. I took God's help for granted in the work I was doing." A pragmatist who believes that the proof of the pill is in the action...