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...Government Contracts, establishing an NRA-like code of wages and working conditions (8-hour day, 40-hour week, prevailing wages) for manufacturers and distributors who sell the Government at least $10,000 worth of goods per year. Expected to affect 75% of the nation's industry, it brought a prompt protest from steelmen who argued that Government supplies were a minor part of their business...
Unanimously the Justices turned thumbs down on the Natural Products Marketing Act, an NRA for primary producers. And (4-to-2) the Court also held ultra vires the Employment & Social Insurance Act, proposing a compulsory contributory employment insurance system planned on the British pattern...
...president of the Lions Clubs. On the Federal bench, to which Calvin Coolidge appointed him in 1928, Judge Vaught has a reputation for fairness: a big, bluff record which includes life-sentencing the kidnappers of Charles Urschel, bluntly telling a local company to pay no attention to the late NRA, restraining the U. S. from collecting coal taxes under the late Guffey Act. Last week he presided at the trial of Lonzo Carl Giles, onetime Federal Relief administrator in Oklahoma, charged with conspiracy to defraud the Government by countenancing "phony" bids for the purchase of FERA mules...
...Brooklyn the four Schechter Brothers, whose triumph in the U. S. Supreme Court last year smashed the NRA, disclosed that they have lost their poultry business, once the city's largest, that the mortgage on their old father's house has been foreclosed, that they have nothing left but a batch of clippings, a letter from the Liberty League...
...ideal candidate, but he does have ideas worth incorporating into the party program. His theme song, and indeed he sings little else, is a dirge of hate directed at monopoly in all its forms, particularly the big-industry and labor-union privilege and the farmer privilege which the NRA and AAA represented. Ideas of this sort go at a premium. It may even be hoped--now that the Democratic Party has in effect defaulted upon its free-trade principles--that the high tariff mania and its favoritism to special groups may be modified in the interests of consistency and sound...