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...amend the Constitution giving the Federal Government power to regulate labor, agriculture and industry-or whatever may be necessary to achieve the New Deal's aims, Senator Ashurst, before his switch to the President's plan, belonged to this school of thought. Its devotees last week were not much heard from, for it is generally admitted that any amendment which would grant such power would completely destroy state rights, would virtually give Congress power to do anything...
...make it easier to amend the Constitution. Last week Senators Wheeler and Bone proposed a Constitutional amendment, providing that if the Supreme Court declared a Federal law unconstitutional, Congress should have the power after the next general election to repass the law over the Supreme Court's "veto" by a two-thirds vote. Technically this would not provide a new means of amending the Constitution, but practically it would achieve the same end. As Pundit Walter Lippmann pointed out, this would make the will of two-thirds of Congress supreme over the Constitution, provided they can get themselves reelected...
TIME regrets and would amend an injustice to the Briggs company through its failure to mention the improvement of Briggs working conditions since 1933. After the strike of that year, President Walter Owen Briggs, a semi-invalid, came out of retirement, overhauled his management. Such disinterested investigators as Dr. Leo Wolman of Columbia University and Whiting Williams of Cleveland testify that conditions today in the Briggs plants, while not the industry's best, do now pass muster...
...popped Regent Grady to amend this narrative. Said he: "Why, Harold, my first inkling of the purpose of the meeting was when the Governor stated: 'I believe the University is slipping and that there is a serious question of whether Dr. Frank should be retained...
...Albany to overhaul the State's Constitution. As it turned out, no revisions were made. Unaltered was an old constitutional clause making it mandatory for the electorate to vote every 20 years, beginning in 1916, on the question: "Shall there be a convention to revise the Constitution and amend the same?" In 1916, with the failure of the previous year fresh in mind, the electorate voted No. Last week, 20 years having elapsed, the question again appeared on every New York ballot. Rare was the voter who knew why it was there. It was not mentioned in any political...