Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the New Deal's legalists had hung NRA's power to regulate Industry on the constitutional peg of affecting "the flow of interstate commerce," the Nields opinion was a potent body blow to the Administration. And, as if anticipating an appeal from his decision on "emergency" grounds, Judge Nields added: "The suggestion that recurrent hard times suspend constitutional limitations or cause manufacturing operations to so affect interstate commerce as to subject them to regulation by the Congress borders on the fantastic and merits no serious consideration...
...such an extent that their economic strength will make it unhealthy for a judge to defy you! Don't lose faith because a couple of judges have handed down decisions on questions of vital importance which seem to defeat all you are aiming for. We are to appeal these decisions to the highest courts in the land and will have these decisions reversed...
...this assumes an intelligent body of tutors and deans. Harvard has such a body. If there are individual stupid, narrow, or unjust ones, there is always the possibility of appeal, and a change of tutors. This would not be done by those who really were coasting. If there are tutors or deans who are inclined to be too lenient in their exemptions, this could be corrected in the present manner. The change would be a great and important one, but it would be a matter of degree. So long as some such shift or decentralization does not appear, the full...
...professionally impartial Chairman Sir John Eldon Bankes, a retired Lord Justice of Appeal, will be assisted by ex-War Correspondent Sir Philip (Now It Can be Told) Gibbs, Dame Rachel Crowdy of the League of Nations élite antinarcotic squad, Editor-Historian J. Alfred Spender, Lancashire Industrialist Sir Kenneth Lee, Dean Harold Cooke Gutheridge, Law Professor at Cambridge University and Sir Thomas Allen, chief of the Socialist Co-operative Insurance Society, a thorn in British munitions makers' sides...
Senator Norris, godfather of the New Deal's whole power program, gloomily declared: "The effect of the injunction is practically to nullify the whole TVA Act." And PWA's chief counsel promptly announced that he would join TVA in speeding an appeal to the Supreme Court...