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Last week, 64-year-old Judge Akerman took a second judicial crack at President Roosevelt's recovery program by declaring the Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional and thus supplying the long-awaited framework for an appeal to the Supreme Court. Before him was a case in which a group of Florida citrus fruit growers were suing to enjoin Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration's State control committee from enforcing proration regulations. "In the light of the Constitution, which I read once each week," said Judge Akerman, "the [AAA] act is so full of holes...
...Sammy to loose a great "AaaOOf," as he plunged down on Bessie's head. "Come out!" screamed his eight assistants to Beatty. He flicked a whip at the cageful of pedestaled lions & tigers, took the chance of turning his back on them, jumped into the fight. Bang! Bang! Crack! His blank gun, whip and chair were useless. Assistants trained a suffocating fire-hose stream on the fighters. Sammy had his great jaws deep in Bessie's throat. Trainer Beatty grabbed a piece of iron pipe, wrapped his fingers in Sammy's mane, whacked him again & again over...
...success of the tour pointed up for this week's Pittsburgh meeting of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association old talk about an open tennis tournament. With crack players like Vines, Tilden, Richards, Barnes, Cochet and Nusslein in professional ranks, many tennis enthusiasts hold that the only real test of tennis supremacy would be a tournament comprised of amateurs and professionals. Much red tape between the U. S. L. T. A. and the International Lawn Tennis Federation would have to be cut before a U. S. open could be sanctioned. Even its most optimistic advocates last week...
...Chicago to the London Times. In London, Edward Price Bell got interviews with Lord Grey that were reprinted all over the world. Charles Dennis himself went to Paris in 1919 to help cover the Peace Conference. All News correspondents during the War and for years after were not only crack newshawks but also unofficial U. S. Ambassadors who dipped discreetly in and out of world diplomacy...
Last week Denver got what it has wanted for 75 years when Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy announced that after June11, it would extend the schedule of its crack Chicago-Denver Aristocrat through the Moffat Tunnel over the Dotsero Cut-off to Salt Lake City and over the Western Pacific to San Francisco...