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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average corn crop 1900-1936 was approximately 2,500,000,000 bu. Under the restricted acreage of AAA and its successor, the Soil Conservation Act, 2,500,000,000 bu. is also a bumper crop...
...still an important part of his views on the Sherman Law. Pointing out that the law permitted Capital to combine 50% of the steel industry in one corporation, most of the shoe machinery industry in another, he wrote: "It would, indeed, be strange if Congress had by the same Act willed to deny to members of a small craft of workingmen the right to cooperate in simply refraining from work, when that course was the only means of self-protection against a combination of militant and powerful employers...
Chief Justice Hughes and Associate Justice Owen Roberts, whose historic change of heart as exhibited by his decision on the Wagner Labor Act last spring stamped him as at least temporarily a liberal, belong to neither of the Court's well defined sides. Both are closer to the liberals than to their hard-shelled conservative colleagues with whom they were aligned in this week's employe bonus case. Among the Court's current liberal majority, the shadings of viewpoint are subtler. A single opinion, even when it is as eloquent as the one he read this week...
...words the U. S. (Ambassador wished to insert are "historically incorrect." Grey & graceful Norman Hezekiah Davis then subsided; the note was sent off to Tokyo; the Conference rose until Japan should see fit to reply, and its chief European delegates departed to their own capitals, leaving underlings to act in Brussels. Members of the U. S. delegation said that Ambassador Davis was "digging in at Brussels," prepared to stay as long as President Roosevelt thinks necessary...
...summaries, now an accepted and very valuable feature of the "Guardian," the one on the National Recovery Act deserves special commendation for succinct lucidity...