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Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, who has already ruled on AAA, NRA, TVA, was baffled when a Louisiana attorney, defending his State's oil tax before the Supreme Court, persistently rattled off the phrase...
...manufacturing slack, post-Christmas retail layoffs and post-NRA lengthening of working hours were blamed by the American Federation of Labor last week for the fact that an estimated 1,229,000 persons lost their jobs last January, as compared with 669,000 in January 1935. A five-year record for the month, the loss brought the A. F. of L.'s estimate of total unemployed to 12,626,000. Its figure for January...
...Ohio managers were scurrying around to find a second-choice man for the Borah ticket. They dug up Frank E. Gannett, publisher of a chain of 19 newspapers in New York and neighboring states, for 25 years a friend of Franklin Roosevelt, for six months (until after NRA and AAA) a friend of the New Deal. Last week Publisher Gannett, sunning himself in Miami, was glad to run as second choice for Senator Borah in Ohio in order to save the Supreme Court from Franklin Roosevelt. Said he: "It would mean a great sacrifice for me to accept any public...
...unguarded speech which has cost Léon Blum some votes and perhaps won him others, the No. 1 French Socialist pledged that the Republic's first Socialist Cabinet will give France a vacance de légalité or "lapse from legality" resembling the NRA and AAA honeymoons...
...answering the statement that the New Deal measures have helped business, Sullivan referred to the drop in the stock market when the NRA and AAA were passed and the subsequent rise when they were declared void by the court. He went on to call the administration the most remarkable political matchine of all time and summed up their political and economic philosophy as "Hell bent for election...