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Last week three U. S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, second highest in the land, passed on the constitutionality of three prime New Deal measures, cleared the path to final judgment by the Supreme Court. Two measures went on their way with court curses, one with a blessing. AAA. Taking its cue from the Supreme Court, the first Federal Circuit Court in Boston found AAA's vital processing taxes as illegal as NRA's codes, and for the same reasons. A U. S. District Court had rejected the suit of receivers for Hoosac Mills Corp, to escape payment...
...Alabama towns to buy its power. Last week in New Orleans the Fifth Federal Circuit Court handed Judge Grubb his first New Deal reversal, went out of its way to declare specifically that TVA was constitutional. The war and commerce clauses of the Constitution empower the Government to build dams for purposes of improving navigation, supplying needs of national defense. Power created by the dams is Government property and may, ruled the Court, be disposed of as freely as any other Government property. In four words the Court disposed of the argument that TVA does not aim at legitimate surplus...
While a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals was putting a crimp in old AAA last week (see above), two Virginia farmers and an Idaho philosopher in the Senate were crippling at birth the bigger & better AAA conceived in the AAAmendments. Bee Control. Senator Carter Glass withered one amendment with ridicule. Among numerous commodities to be controlled and prorated, the spunky little Virginian last fortnight discovered queen bees. Bobbing up in the Senate, he rasped from the side of his mouth: "I note here that it is proposed to confer upon the Secretary of Agriculture the right to bring about...
...Senate voted 40-to-38 for price-fixing. But next day, a few wavering minds having apparently been shifted by the Circuit Court decision against AAA, the Senate reversed itself, clipped out the price-fixing amendment...
...June 28 the brothers got caught in a thunderstorm, fought it out for two hours, broke a stabilizer brace wire. Ole Miss droned on. Next day Ole Miss got into a serious jam when a radio short circuit set the instrument board afire. Al shut off the motor, put out the fire in three minutes with a hand extinguisher. Red-eyed and unshaven, aching all over, the brothers were stained with grease and carbon. Al, 28, had lost 20 Ib. Fred, 25, had gained ten. By this time all Mississippi was basking in their achievement, and Governor Conner made them...