Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the cotton came from a bonded warehouse, licensed under a Federal law passed in 1916, white man and Negro were indicted for Federal crimes. Jed Earner pleaded guilty, was sentenced to eight months in jail, was later released when Fred Hastings, who fought the case, got the law declared unconstitutional by a Federal judge. Last week Fred Hastings had famed counsel to plead his case before the top court of the U. S.: ex-Solicitor General James M. Beck...
...many another New Deal project-had been raised. The debate was taken out of the hands of Mr. Beck and his opponent, Assistant Attorney General Joseph B. Keenan, for the Justices began a rigorous catechism. On Mr. Beck descended ''Liberal'' Justice Brandeis. "Neither the cotton involved nor the warehouse receipts on it are instrumentalities of interstate commerce," cried Mr. Beck. "How would you draw a distinction?" demanded Justice Brandeis. "If the Government has the power to create an instrumentality, why hasn't it the power to say 'if you destroy or impair...
...Aren't you contending that the Government could make it a Federal crime to steal a bale of cotton off a farmer's wagon, because the cotton will eventually go into interstate commerce?" demanded Justice McReynolds...
Said Mr. Keenan: "The Government is not trying to police the morals of Mississippi residents. As far as the Warehouse Act is concerned the Government does not care how much they steal from one another in Mississippi as long as they keep their hands off cotton in bonded Federal warehouses. When they don't, it is a burden on interstate commerce...
...Wanda Kirkbridge Farr of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and Miss Sophia H. Eckerson of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Yonkers, N. Y. launched an intensive chemical drive on cotton fibres, which are almost pure cellulose. When they soaked the fibres in strong hydrochloric acid, the cellulose structure came visibly apart under powerful microscopes. The particles, it turned out, had not been too small to see but were hidden by a cementing substance that the acid dissolved. There were football-shaped bodies some .00006 in. long. As the cell wall was built the particles formed compact...