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Printing Press Money "The first person injured by sky-rocketing prices is the man on a fixed income. Every disabled veteran on pension or allowance is on fixed income. This bill favors the able-bodied veteran at the expense of the disabled veteran. . . . Every country that has attempted the form of meeting its obligations which is here provided has suffered disastrous consequences. In the majority of cases printing press money has not been retired through taxation. Because of increased costs, caused by inflated prices, new issue has followed new issue, ending in the ultimate wiping out of the currency...
...City "Garden of Eating" sessions. Yelping "It's wonderful," they hippety-hopped out of doors where police arrested them. When Psychiatrists Lauretta Bender & Zuleika Yarrel examined the prisoners, they found that 16 were mad. Considered possibly sane was a woman who refused to accept a widow's pension because "God will provide...
What inspired them was meditation on a matter cheering to many a Republican heart: Mr. Justice Roberts' opinion invalidating the Railway Pension Act (TIME, May 13) in which he held that laudable social aims are no substitute for constitutionality. A man with such beliefs might be the leader whom Republicans desired. Was he not, they asked, only 60, a good age for a candidate? Had this Philadelphia lawyer not received the cachet of approval from Presidents Coolidge and Hoover? Had he not struck up a fine friendship with the Press while prosecuting the Teapot Dome oil cases...
...railway pension act, passed ten months ago, required railroads to pension their retiring employes. Franklin Roosevelt, who made it law, was its first critic, remarking as he signed it that it was crudely drawn. Second critics were railroads who contested it in court. Third critic was a lower court which held it unconstitutional. When five Supreme Court Justices became its final critics, few people were surprised...
Justice Roberts not only voted against it but wrote the majority opinion. He ruled that the act would have taken property from the railroads without due process of law because it arbitrarily pooled the pension liabilities of different roads. More important, he ruled that pensioning railway employes had nothing to do with regulating interstate commerce. Said he: "It is an attempt for social ends to impose by sheer fiat non-contractual incidents upon the relation of employer and employe, not as a rule or regulation of commerce and transportation between the states but as a means of assuring a particular...