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...power to regulate Industry on the constitutional peg of affecting "the flow of interstate commerce," the Nields opinion was a potent body blow to the Administration. And, as if anticipating an appeal from his decision on "emergency" grounds, Judge Nields added: "The suggestion that recurrent hard times suspend constitutional limitations or cause manufacturing operations to so affect interstate commerce as to subject them to regulation by the Congress borders on the fantastic and merits no serious consideration...
...Unless two hundred paid subscriptions can be secured for the "Lampoon" within two week's time, the paper will be compelled to suspend publication. The price per subscription for the remaining half year is $1.50. A book will be immediately placed at Bartlett's, and everyone who is interested in seeing the 'Lampoon' continued, is urgently requested to enter his name there at once. Seventy-five of those who subscribed at the beginning of the year have not yet paid their subscriptions. The money for these must be obtained within a few days, as the paper is seriously involved. Subscription...
With unruffled Eton candor Major Stanley rose to tell the House that Britain's new Dole system, after one month's trial, has proved so unpopular with Britain's proletariat that he found himself obliged to suspend it here and now. Brave Major Stanley went further, admitted himself completely routed. In cases where the new Dole has reduced payments to individuals, he said, they would not only be upped back to their former scale but Government would give them the sum withheld last month. In cases where the new Dole upped payments, recipients not only keep what...
...Congress to invalidate "gold clauses" in public and private securities. For years the U. S. Government and most corporations promised to repay lenders their principal and interest "in gold coin of the present standard of weight and fineness." On June 5, 1933 Congress, having authorized the President to suspend the gold standard, forbade the writing of any more gold clauses, declared in effect that all those previously written were legally out of bounds. Hence came the four issues before the Supreme Court last week...
...That party was right. But when this party took charge of the Government, one of the first things it did was to suspend the Anti-Trust Laws and monopoly was never more unrestrained or more ruthless than at the present time...