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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Curses & Blessing | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

The Virgin Islands squabble had now been inflated to the point where it required direct intervention by the President of the U. S. Insignificant was the actual issue beside the major intra-Administration battle it had provoked. At Secretary Ickes' throat were not merely Senators Tydings and Pat Harrison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Fight & Fantasy (Cont'd) | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

3) Most important of all was the public announcement of the President's intention to have his labor bills passed no matter how "reasonable"' might be the doubt of their Constitutionality. There is such doubt about the Labor Disputes Bill. There is a lot more doubt about the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Trial & Error | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

A Cabinet deal transferred the Islands' Federal judgeship from the Interior Department to the Justice Department. Thereupon Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison persuaded Attorney General Cummings to give the job to T. (for Thomas) Webber Wilson, a Mississippi Democrat who had lost his seat in the House by running, unsuccessfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Fight & Fantasy | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

Police Chief John J. O'Connor of St. Paul, Minn, was an extremely practical criminologist. At the turn of the Century he let the word quietly pass around the Midwest's underworld that St. Paul offered sanctuary for crooks who were "hot" elsewhere so long as they behaved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Symphony of Corruption | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

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