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...argued that the decision courageously upholds freedom-of-contract. But many are inclined to condemn the Court for " upholding the freedom to starve...
...strikes in breach of contract, by stoppage for trivial causes, by restriction of output, by opposition to labor saving machinery and new mining methods...
Chief Justice Taft, together with Justice Holmes and Justice Sanford, dissented from the majorities' opinion that the law interfered with the right of contract. Mr. Taft insisted that if the majorities' opinion is sound it becomes unconstitutional to regulate working hours or working conditions and that a return to the sweat shop might result. Justice Holmes declared that giving the vote to women did not rob them of the right of protection ; that it had changed the Constitution of the United States, but had not changed the constitution of women...
...decision of the court delivered by Justice Sutherland held that the District of Columbia's Minimum Wage Law was a price fixing act and as such an abridgment of the right of contract...
...first isolated several years ago by the late Jokichi Takamine, and has been used for various purposes by physicians, but has never before been injected directly into the heart, except in the case of a stillborn baby recently chronicled in TIME. The effect of the treatment is to contract the blood vessels, especially in the limbs, increase the blood pressure and stimulate the heart. It could not, of course, be used to restore a patient who had died from a long, wasting disease, but in cases of violent shock where death has ensued because of a rush of blood from...