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There are eight possibilities for the pitching staff, and of these five were in action yesterday. These were John Mahoney '37, Proctor H. Avon '37, William S. Baxter '37, Arnold Bronstein '37 and William T. McGann '37. Two additional possibilities are Richard MacC. Walsh '37, who has not yet reported, and Royall Victory '37, who is out for polo. All the men who pitched yesterday could be criticized either for lack of smoothness or lack of control...
...same column the writer feared that the decision in the Ben Avon Case would not be overruled by the Supreme Court. Aside from the question as to whether it already has been tacitly overruled (see Crowell v. Benson, in which the Court takes a day off in a "lazy, hazy sort of way"), does it not seem obvious that if the Court even attempted to review the findings of fact by administrative tribunals, its docket would be swamped? The Administration has set up all sorts of new administrative tribunals, as well as increasing the work of those previously established...
...Federal Trade Commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and all our other administrative tribunals are not in a position to hold General Johnson's hand with much effectiveness. The Supreme Court, in the Ben Avon case, cut short all the progress which administrative law had made, by ruling flatly that all findings of administrative tribunals, not only of law but also of fact, were ordinarily reviewable by the common courts. Obviously, until this stand is modified by the Court, any transfer of authority from General Johnson to the Federal Trade Commission means, in practise, the supremacy of the common courts, which...
...Proctor H. Avon, John Mahoney, James N. Kidder, John D. Gannett...
...last individual proprietor of a London daily; of heart disease; in London. He served on the Simon Commission in India, stoutly opposed Indian autonomy. He presided over the International Labor Conference (Geneva, 1921, 1922, 1926); was chairman of the committee which rebuilt the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon. His newspaper, handed down through three generations from his grandfather Joseph Moses Levy, carried more U. S. news, unbiased and friendly, than any other British sheet...