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...Franklin Roosevelt's eye, Congress, which got its early training in industrial legislation working on the railroads, passed a pension law for the 1,500,000 railroad employes of the U. S. In May 1935 the Supreme Court threw out that first Railway Pension Act along with NRA. Before the summer was out Congress tried again. The District of Columbia Supreme Court found the second law unconstitutional. So although the Social Security Act has been debated, passed and in force for a year, there is yet no railroad pension law in operation. Last week it appeared that one soon...
...have gone through 22 months without a single passenger fatality aboard American ships, and that is a good record." Good though the record may be, its establishment was not accepted by Washington observers as Director Weaver's chief reason for quitting. Strongest possibility was that Joe Weaver, onetime NRA shipping administrator, was not too happy in the Department of Commerce.* Year ago when Secretary Roper's "lethargy" was scored by the National Committee on Safety at Sea, someone began releasing confidential data about the situation. Over Director Weaver's protests, Secretary Roper fired the Bureau...
...danger in the Courts; that the Administration apparently has a courtproof substitute for AAA in the present Soil Conservation Law, which is adequate to deal with the Dust Bowl; that the biggest project which the Supreme Court will not allow the New Deal is another NRA, and six new judges could not make that constitutional for the Supreme Court was unanimous upon...
...have been crossed. For example, it would never do to presume that the United States Steel Corporation is engaged in interstate commerce. Similarly, we could not presume that dealers in live poultry are engaged in interstate commerce. In fact, we cannot conceive how this could even be proved [Schechter (NRA) case]. If Congress, by statute should presume that the products of the bituminous coal industry move in interstate commerce, we should have no hesitation in setting the act aside [Carter Coal Co. (Guffey) case]. . . . These instances . . . involve rights of property; Snatch is arguing for personal liberty. The two must...
...first was that Japanese exports to the U. S. were concentrated in one major cloth classification and two or three minor ones. Japan accounted last year for about half the U. S. consumption of bleached goods, cotton rugs and cotton velveteens. The second fact was that invalidation of NRA had left U. S. mill owners high & dry on a plateau of permanently raised labor costs without the commensurate tariff protection provided in NRA's Section...