Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed without a roll call the bill extending until Dec. 31, 1941 the authority of the Government to make soil conservation payments direct to farmers instead of allocating the funds for administration by individual States after Dec. 31 as provided in the Soil Conservation Act. Sent it to the President...
...last time this session the Supreme Court (which adjourns for the season June 1) this week pronounced the fate of a major New Deal law. Expecting a decision on the Social Security Act, Senators (among them Court Candidate Joseph T. Robinson), members of the Social Security Board and Government attorneys dotted the crowd in the court room. The political consequences of the decision would affect not only the Social Security program but the President's Court program. To many an ardent New Dealer there would have been a very silvery lining in a decision finding this New Deal...
...Statute does not call for a surrender by the States of powers essential to their quasi-sovereign existence. . . . The Social Security Act is an attempt to find a method by which all these [Federal or State] public agencies may work together to a common...
...Court's first tactical victory was in upholding the constitutionality of the State of Washington's minimum wage law for women and of the National Labor Relations Act. Associate Justice Roberts and Chief Justice Hughes, who made those decisions by aligning themselves with the Court's liberals, were credited with damping the enthusiasm of labor for a Court change. When the Court last week upheld the Social Security Act (see p. 16), it simply added one more reason for believing such a change unnecessary...
...Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation is gratified that such an important issue has been so amicably settled by peaceful and democratic methods, under the provisions of the Wagner Act...