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...weighing the velvet offered farmers by the New Deal against the marble of the Constitution, "General" Reed had on his hands three all-important cases on two prime New Deal laws. One involved the Bankhead Cotton Control Act, without which crop reductions in the South might quickly go to pot. The other two were concerned with the AAAct and its processing taxes...
...bought or where he had made his purchases. His purchases may have been negligible and, wherever made, they were not made in London. After driving all other purchasers out of the great international silver market, he had suddenly turned his back and left that market to go to pot. World silver trading stopped dead in its tracks. From 65? the price on various exchanges dropped to 63¼, 61¼, 58½?- nominal figures at which little or no real business was done. Nobody knew what the price of silver should be today since the U. S. had kept silver...
...taxes, retorts Hoosac Mills, are not imposed for revenue, but to do indirectly what the Government has no direct power to do, namely to regulate production. 3) Is the AAAct a constitutional exercise of Congressional power to regulate interstate commerce? The Government says it is because commerce goes to pot when farmers get no adequate return for their products. Hoosac Mills says it is not because the power to regulate interstate commerce does not include power to tax products that have not yet entered interstate commerce. With all this friendly but contradictory advice already before them in briefs, the nine...
...forgot that he was the same Lord Lytton who sponsored the 1932 League of Nations report condemning the Japanese rape of Manchuria (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932). Though a whole commission went to Japan seeking Chinese treasures for the London show, Japan at first churlishly refused to send a single pot. Well satisfied, the Chinese Government not only lent the Manchu treasures but sent a corps of light-fingered experts to pack and unpack them, to set them up in Burlington House against roll upon roll of special canvas backgrounds. King George and Queen Mary did not attend last week...
...Orleans, New York, Omaha, Richmond, Savannah, Toledo, Tulsa, Saginaw, Stamford, Lima, Joplin. Durham, East Orange, Amarillo, many another city large and small. Half a hundred strong, they were ranged at long tables before the speaker's stand, they and their aides and emissaries, their bulbous noses and their pot bellies, for another solemn, straight-faced meeting of the U. S. Conference of Mayors...