Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tested in the Courts. The Supreme Court approved it in 1917 by a 4-4 vote, Justice Louis Brandeis (who had helped prepare briefs in the case before his appointment to the Court) not voting. Six years later another minimum wage law passed by Congress for the District of Columbia came before the Supreme Court. Again Justice Brandeis did not vote, presumably because his daughter had been agitating for such laws. By this time, however, the complexion of the Court had changed. Instead of tying 4-4, thereby giving the Law the benefit of Constitutional doubt, the Court voted...
...economic conditions which have supervened [since the District of Columbia law was invalidated in 1923] . . . make it not only appropriate but we think imperative that in deciding the present case the subject should receive fresh consideration. . . . What can be closer to the public interest than the health of women and their protection from unscrupulous and overreaching employers...
...blunt conclusion: "The case of Adkins v. Children's Hospital [District of Columbia case] should be, and it is, overruled. The judgment of the Supreme Court of Washington is affirmed...
Yale, Brown, Amherst, Dartmouth, Princeton, Williams, Fordham, and Columbia will be represented...
Professor Harold C. Urey, of Columbia will give a free public lecture entitled "The Problem of the Concentration of Isotopes" in the Fogg Museum this evening at 8:15 o'clock under the auspices of the Harvard chapter of he society of Sigma...