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Fortnight ago the Roosevelt Administration ducked its first opportunity for a clean-cut test of NRA's constitutionality when at the Government's request the Supreme Court dismissed the case against Lumberman William Elbert Belcher, who had deliberately refused to obey the Lumber Code (TIME, April 8). This procedure practically demoralized NRA's personnel, precipitated a nation-wide epidemic of petty code violations and put the Government in the equivocal position of asking for an extension of the NIRA without daring to risk a showdown on the Act's basic validity. To hush critical cries...
...general demurrer, the Schechter case had a 1,647-page trial record, had passed from the district court through the Circuit Court. Not given as a reason for his preference was Mr. Richberg's enthusiastic declaration that the Circuit Court's Schechter opinion "sustained the constitutionality of NRA right across the board...
...most respected and uncompromising septuagenarians of the South, Federal Judge William Irwin Grubb of Birmingham, whose decisions are very rarely reversed by higher courts. Last October, the Government brought Lumberman Belcher to trial before Judge Grubb on charges of paying lower wages and working his men longer hours than NRA's lumber code allowed. Defendant Belcher readily admitted the facts but argued that the Recovery Act as applied to him was unconstitutional for 61 different reasons. Judge Grubb upheld him (TIME, Nov. 12). Government attorneys were delighted; here was a magnificent test case-no argument about facts, simply...
Meantime the New Deal made efforts to consolidate its new line of defense. A bill extending the life of NRA to June 16, 1937 was hastily introduced in the Senate by Senator Harrison, who explained that it was merely to serve as a basis for discussion, blanks being left for the amount of fines that NRA violators should pay, etc. It would renew Section 7a without change and would not permit restrictions on production except for special exceptions. Chief change in the proposed law, however, was that it offered a mass of new legal verbiage to bring NRA within...
Sheer Confidence. Thus, on price policy, van Zeeland took a position opposite to President Roosevelt's. He announced nothing resembling the NRA, and headlines about NEW DEAL FOR BELGIUM could be charged off as oversimplified tosh. Chief effect of the European currency misgivings produced by Belgium's devaluation was to give a fillip to the notion that "Sterling is the best money," and Sterling soared against other currencies, gold and paper. Smug British bankers plumed themselves once again on the Empire's supremacy in creating sheer confidence out of whatever sheer confidence is made of. Keen...