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...unexpected change of Chief Justice Hughes' heart produced two effects: it gave the newspapers an approach to the constitutionality of the NRA which was personal and striking, and it obscured the exact measure of the progress which the Minnesota mortgage decision has marked out. Before any talk of "liberals" and "conservatives" can be valid, before any real prophesies on Roosevelt's impact with the court can be enunciated, it will be necessary to examine the text of the Minnesota law and the grounds upon which the Supreme Court supported...
...Each of these represents a definite social advance which the Supreme Court has not admitted in the past and which can not be admitted on the narrow emergency basis which the Chief Justice posits. It may be that Mr. Hughes and the Court have become "liberal," and that the NRA will pass substantially untouched under their eyes, but this decision, and the grounds on which it was made, do not give much basis for the belief. POLLUX...
...Depression; over 5% believe they will be better off after the Depression than in their most prosperous years, chiefly because society will benefit from the ''bitter lesson of greed." Over 92% think that society has been benefited by the NRA, that consumers should buy from NRA firms only...
...producers were squeezing little ones, that while the oil code increased costs to producers $125,000,000 a year, $486,000,000 in price increases were being passed on to consumers. With North Dakota's Nye he went to the White House with another complaint. He felt that NRA was injuring the small businessman. The President offered both Senators seats on a new supervisory board, which both refused. It was then agreed that some anti-trust teeth would have to be fitted into the Blue Eagle's bill at the coming session...
...Federation approved a proposal of Secretary of Commerce Roper, presented by proxy, that beginning in 1935 a selected group of 150 or 200 politically ambitious college juniors spend the first three months of each year in Washington studying government first hand. A motion for sponsorship of junior NRA clubs throughout the land was tabled...