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...Woman has just handed the Vagabond the morning news: There's NRA talk again; and by the way the new Supreme Court building is magnificent. An Mr. Wallace is making plans for a permanent AAA. There's the Constitution in the headlines again. And, bless my soul, business leaders are afraid and would enter politics themselves...
From 1925 until last June Charles Irvin Dawson was Federal Judge in the Western District of Kentucky. From that bench he held unconstitutional: 1) Federal condamnation of land for slum clearance, 2) the Kerr-Smith Tobacco Act, 3) the NRA Coal Code. Then he resigned, because "I have been greatly disturbed by the tendency of Congress in the last three years to override all Constitutional limitations in the enactment of so-called New Deal legislation. . . . One of the impelling motives that prompted me to quit the bench was the deep-seated conviction that in the next few years I would...
...handsome, silvery haired Elwood Hamilton, a reliable New Dealer.* Predecessor Dawson shortly argued before Successor Hamilton that the New Deal law requiring prison-made goods to be labeled as such was unconstitutional. Not so, decided Judge Hamilton. Next, Lawyer Dawson attacked the Guffey Coal Act, lineal descendant of the NRA coal code which he, as judge, had declared unconstitutional. Sound as a drum, Judge Hamilton last week called a second strike against his predecessor...
...Deal judge told 19 protesting coal companies that it was perfectly legal for Congress to pass the Guffey Act imposing a penalty tax of 13½% on the value of their output unless they would submit to government regulation of wages and coal prices by the equivalent of what NRA called a Code Authority. In doing so he propounded a doctrine which differed not only from that of his predecessor but from that of the Supreme Court in the Schechter (NRA) case: Judge Hamilton: "The bituminous coal industry as now conducted affects interstate commerce and, this being true, the court...
...politics, such appointments are normal. Last week Senators Black and Bankhead urged the President to appoint David J. Davis to succeed the late Judge William Irwin Grubb of Alabama who blasted NRA and TVA with adverse decisions. Prime recommendation that Senator Black gave for Mr. Davis was that he is "a strong supporter of the present Administration...