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...company, or any other manufacturing concern, subject to Federal regulation under the commerce clause of the Constitution? Quite definitely no. thought Judge Nields. In reaching this, the broadest section of his opinion, he observed: "The manufacturing operations conducted by defendant in its various plants or mills do not constitute interstate commerce. . . . If defendant's manufacturing plants and manufacturing operations are to be regarded as instruments for the interstate movement of goods it follows that practically all of the manufacturing industry of the United States would be brought within the control of the Federal government. Such result has received...
...himself to death in his Paris apartment in 1932, Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. was appointed receiver to conserve the assets of International Match Corp., the Swedish swindler's principal U. S. sinkhole. According to Kreuger's handmade balance sheets, Match was a $200,000,000 concern with world-wide properties. Discovering only $9,871 in cash, the receivers searched the wide world for other Match assets. It disputed the claims of Kreuger & Toll. It accused the German Government of "flagrant discrimination" between Swedish and U. S. creditors under the famed "Kreuger Loan," biggest single Match asset...
...unimportant appropriation bill lay on the President's desk, a bill to provide funds for the Communications Commission. He put his signature to it and then had a press release issued commenting on the event. The release did not concern the bill itself but an amendment tagged on it by Congress: a caboose setting forward from July i to April i the date for restoring the last 5% of the 15% Federal pay-cut made...
When Harvard students, as representatives of a sex noted for their lack of concern for domestic matters, vociferously protest the condition of their rooms. It is time to sit up and take notice. When a bed feels like a corrugated tin roof, when dust covers every object and piles high in neglected corners, irritation reaches a fever pitch. No blame can be attached to the goodies, they do remarkably well considering their human limitations. Rushing about the room, duster and mep in hand, with the speed of an express train is the only possible way for a goodie to clean...
...restore prosperity by egregious expenditure. It is said glibly that this puts the burden on the taxpayer of the future. Beyond very grave doubts whether any expenditure can be transferred to the future for payment, the amount of deficit that the country can stand now is of some concern. Everyone is agreed that there is a limit. Scales have been broken heretofore by being overweighted. We should realize that the abstract definition of the lexicon, "equilibrium, steadiness, stability" is there because it has concrete, practical applications...