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...masses of the people, William Randolph Hearst is one of the most powerful. Because of this power, he must be judged in the light of his use of it. Mr. Donham is content that Hearst "is against communism, fascism, low tariffs, the League of Nations, the World Court, the NRA, and regimentation of economic life," and claims that in this respect his position is little different from that of papers such as the New York Herald-Tribune...
Last week in Washington, 1,500 businessmen descended on the Capitol in a fleet of taxicabs to tell Congressmen that they must vote for a two-year extension of NRA. In Manhattan William Green of the A. F. of L. roared to 18,000 clothing workers a threat of a general strike if Congress did not vote a two-year extension of NRA. At the White House Franklin Roosevelt came out strongly for two more years for NRA. The Ways & Means Committee of the House obediently prepared to report a bill for NRA extension. And the Supreme Court knocked...
...these things? A Federal Circuit Court of Appeals had held them guilty on 17 counts, innocent on only two concerning wages and hours (TIME, May 13 et ante). It was for the Supreme Court to decide finally whether the Schechters were guilty of breaking a real law or whether NRA was guilty of having regulated U. S. business for nearly two years under a false law, unconstitutional and invalid...
...Chief Justice had just stated flatly that the nine Justices unanimously agreed that the power of code-making was an unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority by Congress. That meant that 557 NRA codes were no longer the law of the land. Said Chief Justice Hughes...
What further thoughts Franklin Roosevelt had were not disclosed. Felix Frankfurter, who was credited with advising the President to postpone a court test until NRA was an established success, and Mr. Richberg, who had declined to make the Court test on the Belcher lumber case (TIME, April 8) and then picked the Schechter case as the best way of taking NRA to Court, must both have felt distinctly sheepish. New Deal lieutenants on the House Ways & Means Committee fiddled around fruitlessly with a new bill to plug the holes the Supreme Court had dug in the Recovery...