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...Belcher Sirs: TIME publishes the most trustworthy of movie guides, but why don't you do about Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's belching lion? W. D. HUMPHREY Sherbrooke, Quebec
What further thoughts Franklin Roosevelt had were not disclosed. Felix Frankfurter, who was credited with advising the President to postpone a court test until NRA was an established success, and Mr. Richberg, who had declined to make the Court test on the Belcher lumber case (TIME, April 8) and then picked the Schechter case as the best way of taking NRA to Court, must both have felt distinctly sheepish. New Deal lieutenants on the House Ways & Means Committee fiddled around fruitlessly with a new bill to plug the holes the Supreme Court had dug in the Recovery...
Fortnight ago the Roosevelt Administration ducked its first opportunity for a clean-cut test of NRA's constitutionality when at the Government's request the Supreme Court dismissed the case against Lumberman William Elbert Belcher, who had deliberately refused to obey the Lumber Code (TIME, April 8). This procedure practically demoralized NRA's personnel, precipitated a nation-wide epidemic of petty code violations and put the Government in the equivocal position of asking for an extension of the NIRA without daring to risk a showdown on the Act's basic validity. To hush critical cries...
...Assistant President" Richberg produced a number of reasons for preferring the Schechter case to the Belcher case as a battleground for Constitutional appeal. Whereas the Belcher case had been routed around the Circuit Court of Appeals and its record consisted only of bare charges and a general demurrer, the Schechter case had a 1,647-page trial record, had passed from the district court through the Circuit Court. Not given as a reason for his preference was Mr. Richberg's enthusiastic declaration that the Circuit Court's Schechter opinion "sustained the constitutionality of NRA right across the board...
...change in the proposed law, however, was that it offered a mass of new legal verbiage to bring NRA within the scope of the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution and get around the Constitutional objections on which the White House was afraid to go to bat in the Belcher case...