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...sell the goods. In viewing with alarm the commodity boom, Retailer Runkle opined: "It would be a serious thing for all of us if prices got out of bounds." Something the retail leaders wanted to keep in bounds quite as much as prices was internal opposition to the "little NRA" outlined by the Dry Goods Association directors at Atlantic City last autumn (TIME, Dec. 7). Put up to the membership last week, the proposed platform called for minimum wages, maximum hours, fair trade provisions and a ban on child labor-all on a voluntary basis buttressed by State statutes. Coming...
...statute of NRA has been outlawed. The problems have not. They are still with us." The Constitution. Loud and long was the applause greeting these sentiments...
Actually, Franklin Roosevelt had outsmarted not only the timid Republican minority but his own followers. His dispassionate tone, his modest admission of faults in NRA, his intimation that a constitutional amendment was not necessary were all mildly reasonable. He did not speak of making the Supreme Court keep step with New Deal aims but of bringing "legislative and judicial action into closer harmony." He did not demand, as he did in his horse & buggy declaration, that the Supreme Court swing into line, but said that the judiciary "is asked by the people to do its part in making democracy successful...
...carry much weight. The Justices of the Supreme Court have the Preamble and Article I of the Constitution already by heart. The Court long ago declared that the Preamble was only a declaration of pious hope conferring no power on the Federal Government. Furthermore, the particular subject matter, NRA, on which the President made his appeal, happened to be the one major New Deal project which no member of the Court, liberal or conservative, found constitutional. Thus the likelihood of a reversal is negligible...
...went to the foreman, got steel posts put up which saved his life next time some trucks crashed down. Meantime he had become vice president of the local automobile union, one of the so-called "Federal unions" which the American Federation of Labor was chartering under the aegis of NRA. He learned one method of fighting unionism in 1934 when he and 25 other members of his union were abruptly discharged. Rehired, he was fired again when he became president of the union. Said he to his foreman: "You'll regret putting me on the street. When I work...