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Only persons to worry, however, about legal guilt were four Brooklyn poulterers, Joseph, Martin, Alex & Aaron Schechter. Were they guilty of violating the law of the land because, contrary to the Poultry Code, they had allowed their customers to pick what chickens they bought, instead of making customers take chickens by the coop, good and bad alike? Were they guilty because, also contrary to code, they had sold an allegedly sick chicken? Guilty for not paying their employes code wages, not working them code hours? For not making proper code reports? For conspiring to do these things? A Federal Circuit...
...Chief Justice had just stated flatly that the nine Justices unanimously agreed that the power of code-making was an unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority by Congress. That meant that 557 NRA codes were no longer the law of the land. Said Chief Justice Hughes...
...complete a nursing hospital in Cologne. On the dot the sisters met installments of their debt, until just $25,000 remained owing by 1935. A Dr. Hofius, good Catholic layman, of the Münster Bank in Westphalia, suggested how this last amount might be paid off. By elaborate code (whenever Mercantile-Commerce was to be mentioned, the nuns used the phrase "Louis has written a letter"), he advised the sisters to smuggle paper marks out of Germany, pay off the St. Louis debt and further reduce their obligations by repurchasing their own bonds at lower rates in foreign markets...
Without bothering to take a record vote, the Senate last week passed a resolution to extend NRA, not for two years but only to next April 1, to outlaw code price-fixing in all but mineral natural-resource industries, to exempt from code control "any person whose business is wholly intrastate...
...latest exponent. Last week his first novel, Fully Dressed and in His Right Mind tried to show skeptical readers that a hard-boiled manner could make even a fairytale come true. The result was more like a parody than a parable-as if General Hugh Johnson had written his code version of one of the rayon-gossamer fables of Oscar Wilde. But readers who were stunned into shocked attention by The Postman Always Rings Twice (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934) may fall under the spell of Author Fessier's glittering...