Word: dagenharts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal wage-hour law, guaranteeing minimum wages and a maximum work week to millions of workers, and outlawing child labor in interstate commerce. The decision, read with great satisfaction by jowly, wise, old Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, specifically overruled the Court's 23-year-old Hammer v. Dagenhart decision, regarded by liberals as the farthest north in reaction. With this legal victory the New Deal was finally legitimized, its last major social reform riveted into place...
...Charlotte, N. C., Farmer Roland Dagenhart brooded over the support of his large family, decided that the law would kill his constitutional right to keep his two sons, Reuben and John (both under 16), at work in a cotton mill. His complaint was upheld in district court; Farmer Dagenhart found his views so appealed to industry generally that a powerful Wall Street law firm undertook his case. His opponent was Federal Attorney William Cicero Hammer, and Mr. Hammer got himself some help, too-from the Solicitor-General of the U. S., a handsome lawyer named John W. Davis. The case...
That decision made history. It refused to broaden Congress' power and permit broad social and economic legislation. Hammer v. Dagenhart was a stunning blow to all liberals; to Congress a crusher. The opposition it aroused set in motion forces that culminated in the New Deal...
...last week three of the five majority justices of Hammer v, Dagenhart were long since dead. The fourth, James C. McReynolds, celebrated his 79th birthday in retirement last week (TIME, Feb. 3) after 26 years on the Court. The fifth, mild, urbane, ultra-conservative Willis Van Devanter, had retired in 1937. Last week, five days after the new Court unanimously overruled Hammer v. Dagenhart, old (81) ex-Justice Van Devanter died of a heart attack at Washington. On the bench in his seat sat Justice Hugo La Fayette Black, first Roosevelt appointee to the Court. With Tommy Corcoran and Benjamin...
...other 1918 participants were scattered or dead. Solicitor General John W. Davis, to whose reputation the case had added, had long since become dean of conservative lawyers. Hammer served five terms in Congress, died in 1930. The Dagenharts had dropped from sight; last heard from them was in 1924 when Reuben Dagenhart, then aged 20, told Scripps-Howard Reporter Lowell Mellett (now a Presidential assistant, see p. 52): "I guess I'd been a lot better off. . . . Look at me! One hundred five pounds, a grown man and no education. . . . The years I've put in the cotton...