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...financial assistance and with some advice and training, can be made self-supporting on land which can eventually belong to them." Social Security. "In many nations where such laws are in effect success in meeting the expectations of the community has come through frequent amendment of the original statute." NRA- Halfway through his speech, President Roosevelt had drawn numerous brief bursts of applause, had stirred his audience to no excitement. Then he came to the point which he wished to drive home: whether or not-all other opposition having been crushed-the Supreme Court was still to stand...
...shop with him. But most of all he showed his New Year form to newshawks who came to his press conference. He was bursting with things to tell, and spoke with the same ringing voice which correspondents heard at the press conference that followed the Supreme Court decision killing NRA- his famed ''horse &buggy'' utterance. Before he finished he had got around to the same topic in a somewhat different...
Just how important those words may prove, no man last week could say but they raised hopes in all those who want to revive NRA. For the Court had apparently given Congress carte blanche to forbid traffic in interstate commerce in any goods not produced under standards of minimum wages, maximum hours of labor, etc. etc., provided states can be induced to forbid the sale of such goods within their own borders...
...most unfortunate, then, that he plunged directly from the enlargement of federal powers to a scorching indictment of the judiciary. The transition was most inappropriate when he took the NRA--one measure ruled out unanimously by the Supreme Court--as his starting point. It would seem to be a jealous cleaving to hasty, ill-advised past action and all its implications. Now the time is ripe for its antithesis, carefully, intelligently, and constitutionally planned reform. If the federal government cannot find a present basis for change--and all avenues are not yet closed--it can propose...
...coupling of a proposed revival of the NRA and a pummeling of the judiciary a false start. Independently, the latter can and should be aired. During the election the powers of that branch of the government had taboo written all over it. But now the question may be discussed with freedom, particularly with regard to what should constitute a majority of the Supreme Court and how the great powers of the lower courts should be. Even in the most acrimonious argument, however, it must be kept in mind that the high court is and must remain a coordinate branch...