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...National Compliance Board. If it cannot settle the case it goes to General Johnson, who can turn it over for prosecution to the Attorney General or to the Federal Trade Commission. "The district compliance director," General Johnson cautioned his new organization, "must bear in mind that his function is to attain compliance by education, expla nation and adjustment. He is not an enforcement officer in any sense of the word...
...statutory grant. Said he: "It is not always easy to determine what objects are naturally within the range or orbit of a particular department of government, but it will scarcely be denied that a primary object essentially within the orbit of the judicial department is that courts properly function in the administration of justice . . . and in the light of judicial history they cannot long continue to do this without power to admit and disbar attorneys who from time immemorial have in a peculiar sense been regarded as their officers...
...true that the newspapers and their supplements perform this function also, but all of their information is poisoned at the source by an uplift which distorts and inflames the faubourgs; if they are made privy to gin and the bright lights, they know them only as the tools of a class abstracted from their own pursuits and pointed up for envy and hostility. But a session with the Legion makes them think twice before they demand that the theatres and the distilleries should be expunged as unholy in the rural theology. It gives them vinous experience not in barns...
...When a surgical operation is described as beautiful, it seems incongruous and uncanny to the layman. To one who can appreciate its beauties it is really the acme of artistic perfection. A resection of the stomach by a master like Mayo, widely excising the diseased part, restoring continuity and function, all so deftly, and beautiful in its beneficent invasion and conquest, is a magnificent epitome of the surgical art. " 'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,' but only the surgeon knows how uneasy lies the head that wields the knife. It requires such intrepidity, such clairvoyance. Cutting...
...economic theory. The article concludes with a discussion of the fact that the Court, if it decides for the NIRA, will be ending in a sense its own supremacy. The article does not prove anything, nor does it give a great deal of information; it fulfills the best function of its kind, in forcing thought, and in constraining that thought within tempered bounds...