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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Sirs: Two recent statements in your columns lead me to write you. One is in your article on the resignation of Judge Taft "Outstanding decisions: one." In Taylor v. Railroad, in the 88th Federal, Judge Taft's opinion established the right of the taxpayers to resort to the courts for protection against tax discrimination; his decision in U. S. v. Addystone Pipe Co. is one of the most frequently cited opinions dealing with the rights of corporations under anti-trust laws; his decision in the Burlington railroad case established the right of the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate rates...
...Hughes was denounced as "a tool of Hooverian power." Progressives charged Mr. Hughes with favoring monopoly; Whigs excoriated Taney for opposing it. Both were conceded to be excellent lawyers. The Senate confirmed Taney as Chief Justice March 15, 1836, by a vote of 29 to 15. He lived to write the famed Dred Scott decision (1857) which voided the Missouri Compromise, denied Congress the right to abolish slavery in the territories and thus helped to advance the Civil War. Senators warned that Chief Justice Hughes might someday write a decision on an economic question as pregnant with awful consequences...
This situation embarrassed the surgeons. They hastened to write a joint letter to the American Medical Association: ". . . we wish to impress on the medical profession the fact that the work to date, although quite promising, is still in the experimental stage, and therefore decidedly inconclusive...
...Jews have money; some, like Author Gold's family, live in the slums, are too poor ever to get away. Says Author Gold: "Bedbugs are what people mean when they say: Poverty. There are enough pleasant superficial liars writing in America. I will write a truthful book of Poverty; I will mention bedbugs...
...cannot feel that Mr. Powel went through any great creative torment to write "Married Money." On the contrary, he must have had a lot of fun doing it. He mocks a good many American foibles, but in a way so good-natured and light-hearted that he leaves the impression of preferring the foibles to perfection...