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...board chairman of Kentucky Home Life Insurance Co. No friend, to the New Deal, he recently ruled that condemnation of private property for PWA slum clearance was beyond the Federal Government's authority. And for the second time he declared last week that the NRA Coal Code was illegal...
Granting again a temporary injunction to 35 western Kentucky soft coal operators against the code authority's enforcement of its minimum wage scale, Judge Dawson ruled: "Whenever the Government unconstitutionally interferes with the right of a citizen to do business in his own way, that interference constitutes an injury to the property rights of the citizen; and that interference takes the form of exacting payment of wages in excess of what the citizen is willing to pay. To the extent of the increased wages, this citizen has been injured in his property rights. Surely, in such a situation...
...ostensibly to find his daughter, the King discovers that one wife is better than 366, especially if that one be the lovely Sidney Fox. The remaining wives revolt and expel Taxis, his governesses, his police, and his guns. So the kingdom is again left to live by its simple code of (1) don't offend your neighbor, and (2) otherwise do as you like...
...containing a short-wave transmitter just powerful enough to flash buzz signals to a telegraph operator upstairs in the courthouse. Locked in his tiny room in the cupola, at 10:29 p. m. the operator heard four sharp buzzes in his earphones, leaped to his key. By A. P. code, four buzzes meant "Guilty-recommendation mercy-life imprisonment." Over the A. P. wires to 1.200 member newspapers and to Press-Radio bureau for broadcast went the flash...
...each with his own bag of tricks, another had chosen the same device. The New York Daily News man carried a small overnight bag containing a short-wave transmitter. As the jury entered the courtroom, the News man stealthily touched his radio button four times-the News's code signal for jury-entry. That was the signal that flashed from courtroom to cupola to press-rooms and microphones...