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Chief points at issue: 1) Are processing taxes an unconstitutional delegation of taxing power by reason of the fact that they are fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture? If so, Hoosac Mills will win its case, but AAA will suffer little because last summer AAAmendments were adopted in which Congress...
At Moscow occurred last week an extraordinary change in Government. It was as if in Washington Attorney General Homer S. Cummings had abruptly been created "Cabinet-Minister-General," with six bureau chiefs of the Department of Justice becoming "Cabinet-Ministers-of-the-First Rank." Such a change in Washington would...
Such talk was sweet music to the mayors which made other subjects sound dull and tuneless. Attorney General Cummings talked about crime control and the mayors made a tour through J. Edgar Hoover's Bureau of Investigation. Experts spoke to them on traffic safety, noise abatement, fire prevention. Senator...
With the statutory deadline only a week away the New Deal resigned itself to revolt. Judge Coleman's Baltimore decision was appealed last week but the Administration is not satisfied with the case because the appellant is not the Government but a private corporation with utility connections. Both SEC...
2) Civil suits will be launched against one or more important holding companies as test cases. "It is . . . not the purpose of the Government to harass the utility industry with a needless multiplicity of suits," Attorney General Cummings instructed his local prosecutors. "Equally, however, there is no public interest to...