Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, 64-year-old Judge Akerman took a second judicial crack at President Roosevelt's recovery program by declaring the Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional and thus supplying the long-awaited framework for an appeal to the Supreme Court. Before him was a case in which a group of Florida citrus fruit growers were suing to enjoin Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration's State control committee from enforcing proration regulations. "In the light of the Constitution, which I read once each week," said Judge Akerman, "the [AAA] act is so full of holes...
Since Secretary Wallace was outside his jurisdiction, Judge Akerman dismissed the fruit growers' injunction proceedings against him. But he did grant them an injunction against the AAA State control committee. In Washington. AAA announced that an appeal would be taken to the U. S. Circuit Court "with the least possible delay...
...last year. The companies had passed the tax on to the public by raising the first-quarter-mile rate from 15? to 20?. The public had passed it on to the driver by cutting his tip 5?. A local court had called the tax unconstitutional but the city was appealing. Last week Mayor LaGuardia told the companies he would drop the city's appeal if the companies would pay back the $500,000 "unconstitutionally" collected to the drivers who earned it. When the companies offered their unionless drivers 40%, the men did the unprecedented thing of striking. Independent drivers...
...without sex appeal we should design a suit in vivid red materials; red symbolizes love, fervor and fire. Certainly such a costume would give him a more pleasant experience than any emotional stimulus he may benefit from...
Dollfuss' appeal has brought about a crisis the seriousness of which is not generally realized. If the Nazis are successful and a pro-German Fascist regime is set up in Austria it will signify more than merely a further spread of the Fascist doctrine; it will mean that the powers of Europe have lost the first real test of strength, with Hitler's Germany, and it will mean the beginning of the end for the status quo set up at Versailles. If Germany is allowed to absorb or control Austria the post-war system of Europe which was based...