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...going to change the New Deal. Republicans asked: If Congress cannot delegate powers to the President without specifying just how they shall be used, how can it obey his request for $4,000,000,000 to spend as he likes for re-employment? (See col. 1.) And how will NRA codes, each "the law of the land," yet none made by Congress, stand quot; the test of the doctrine of "strictly limited" delegation of legislative authority? Senator King of Utah sounded the mildest note of "Beware!" when he declared that the decision would be wholesome because it would make Congress...
...great auditorium of the 817,500,000 palace which Herbert Hoover built for his Department of Commerce was jammed to the doors one day last week. Elbow to elbow sat 2,000 businessmen eager to say their say about whether NRA should permit or forbid price fixing and price control. On the platform presiding over the meeting were Samuel Clay Williams, Chairman of NIRB; Arthur Dare Whiteside and Sidney Hillman, both NIRB members, and their associates...
...checks came through for only 95?. The 2,000 businessmen present might have applauded their hosts if this fact had been called to their attention, but they were by no means ready to applaud when Chairman Williams told them plainly that, unless they could prove it would damage business, NRA was going to put an end to price control. Said he: ''Greater productivity and employment would result if greater price flexibility were attained...
Quick was Oil Administrator Ickes to point out that this decision invalidated only one small section of the Recovery Act, authorizing the President to forbid shipments of "hot oil" in interstate commerce. It did not invalidate NRA codes, or even the Petroleum Code. Secretary Ickes prepared at once to shift his efforts to control production by using the oil code as his tool. He added however: "I imagine the code's constitutionality will be tested next...
...increase in population, largely due to the attempts on the part of businessmen to write into the NRA codes measures favorable to their respective businesses, has also brought into the town its quota of shady characters--chiefly gamblers, and touts of all descriptions. The writer positively knows of one instance where a prominent scientist was accosted by a woman of shady occupation in front of the White House. Be this as it may, the District is still very clean, compared to its sister cities...