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...decision at least admonishes Congress that it has a duty to legislate and not abdicate. The logic of the decision would seem clearly to include the codes of so-called fair competition. Let me give you an illustration. A man writes me he wanted to start an ice plant. The community wanted him to start an ice plant. The Code Authority issued an order that he could not start an ice plant. One of the parties issuing the order was a man who had an ice plant in the same town. If the man violates this order he is sent...
Quick was Oil Administrator Ickes to point out that this decision invalidated only one small section of the Recovery Act, authorizing the President to forbid shipments of "hot oil" in interstate commerce. It did not invalidate NRA codes, or even the Petroleum Code. Secretary Ickes prepared at once to shift his efforts to control production by using the oil code as his tool. He added however: "I imagine the code's constitutionality will be tested next...
...vastest concentration of industry the world has ever seen by establishing small accessory plants in rural districts where workers can live on the land. He and his lady are seen more frequently at Detroit social functions. His spat with the Administration over his stubborn refusal to sign the Automobile Code is forgiven & forgotten...
With the possible exception of the New York Stock Exchange, no U. S. occupation furnishes newspapers with more statistics than the game of baseball. Daily & weekly pitching, batting and fielding averages, compiled in elaborate, accurate and unintelligible code, form a regular feature of every U. S. sport page. To insure maximum attention, annual statistics are not released until the football season closes. By scanning charts, baseball addicts last week were able to find out exactly how every player in the National League performed during the summer of 1934. Leading batter was Pittsburgh's Paul Waner: 146 games; 217 hits...
...Columbus, Ohio, 40 years ago. At Ohio State University he was a brilliant bedraggled student. Few of his friends knew that at the age of eight his left eye had been shot out by a playful playmate with an arrow. Through the Peace Conference, Thurber served as a code clerk in the U. S. Embassy in Paris. In 1925 he was Nice editor of the Paris edition of the Chicago...