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What the Supreme Court would say about stretching the Constitution to give the Government mastery over private industry was a hotly-debated Senate question. Loudly recalled was the fact that in 1918 the Court had voided (5-10-4) a law designed to abolish child labor by prohibiting its products from interstate commerce. Because the Black Bill struck at current working hours by the same oblique method, its critics were confident the Court would reject it as unconstitutional. Its friends argued that the Court's personnel had changed since 1918 and so had the social temper of its decisions...
...call off the boycott, he realized its folly, but what could he do? Orders could not stop it, the Nazis would run wild. President von Hindenburg reminded his Chancellor of his oath to defend the rights of all law-abiding citizens. He threatened to declare martial law and abolish the Government. Then a compromise was reached: the boycott would be declared, but for nine hours on Saturday only. And it must be peaceful...
...this shows enormous changes that have been effected in less than twenty-five years; but when we look for consistent alterations in our government machine, they are not there. The automobile has made township and county units obsolete, they are an unnecessary expense, quite indefensible but equally impossible to abolish...
...stop overproduction of new nurses and provide work for those already trained, abolish hundreds of the 2,000 U. S. nursing schools...
...many in the House were less willing to put President Roosevelt above the lawmaking power of Congress. Gibed Republican Leader Snell: "We'd better abolish Congress and go home." So loud grew the cries of dissent that Speaker Garner, a good retreater, decided to put his dictatorship plan over until the next session...