Word: coale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hardy coal-miners of Gillespie, Ill. paid 25? apiece last Sunday to enter the local cinemansion, behold a theatrical enterprise presented under church auspices. It was written and directed by a priest, but if the miners expected a Biblical drama with cheesecloth and false whiskers, they were disappointed. On the Gillespie stage fists flew, guns roared, young lovers embraced, a mortgage was foreclosed, thugs and drunks swore, strikers rioted, a bomb went off and at one point the whole thing seemed about to go up in smoke & flame. The play: Storm-Tossed. Its author: Rev. Daniel Aloysius Lord...
...opponents with the same weapons that proved so successful against NRA itself. One weapon was Lawyer Frederick H. Wood, of the portentous Manhattan law firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, who argued for the Schechter Brothers. This time he argued for James Walter Carter of Carter Coal Co. with mines in the Virginias. Another weapon was Charles Irvin Dawson, who before he resigned as a Federal judge in Kentucky had declared the NRA coal code unconstitutional. Last week his clients were 19 Kentucky coal companies whose case was joined with that of Coalman Carter. Other weapons were arguments used...
...Lawyer Wood's argument was simple: "If the Congress can regulate the production of coal upon the theories now advanced, then it may regulate piecemeal and one by one substantially every industry in the country and would thereby be enabled to exercise the power specifically denied to it in the Schechter case when attempted through enactment of a single law pertaining to all industry...
...friend. Professor Edward S. Corwin of Princeton. Their prime point was that if the Government has power to regulate interstate commerce, it has thereby power to regulate prices of goods in interstate commerce, and, by that same power, to regulate wages and labor conditions. The 15% coal tax was not defended as part of Congress' power to tax but as part of Congress' power to regulate commerce...
...interstate character of the coal business was supported by briefs filed by no less than seven coal-producing states, each saying that it could not satisfactorily regulate the coal trade because of its interstate nature, that it wanted Federal help. Such briefs by states disclaiming any Federal invasion of their rights were something new. The Democratic Governors of Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Indiana, Illinois, Washington, Kentucky, Ohio, gratefully supplied the New Deal with these unusual testimonials. Whether all the Governors had a right to do so was at least debatable. Governor Davey of Ohio, who has a Republican Attorney General...