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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 5-3 against it. In 1925 a minimum wage law of Arizona, in 1927 a similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Chambermaid's Day | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...City of New York in the face of ouster proceedings, James Joseph ("Jimmy") Walker was back in a public job. As a member of a three-man lunacy commission appointed by a General Sessions Judge, Jimmy Walker, who is chiefly interested at present in rearing an adopted daughter and breeding Irish terriers and fancy chickens on his new Long Island farm, will help to examine an addled ex-convict awaiting sentence for robbery. Usual pay for such services to the City of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Lunacy Tester | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...Angeles, Mr. & Mrs. Jack Ewins announced the birth of a daughter-"Another Social Security Prospect (Class of 2002 A.D.)"-on printed postcards which recorded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 5, 1937 | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...Brawne, who took Brown's house for the summer still resides in Hampstead--she is a very nice woman--and her daughter senior is, I think, beautiful and elegant, graceful, silly, fashionable and strange we have a tiff now and then--she behaves a little better, or I must have sheered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/1/1937 | See Source »

...Dubya was a spellbinder but his morals were not above reproach. Still, he taught Danny several things before the law cracked down on him. Danny's next refuge was with a well-to-do rancher's family. The two sons. Hank and Steve, became his pals, the daughter his sweetheart. When the boys went back to military school, Danny went with them. And there bad blood began to brew between Danny and Steve. It came to a head when they had a finish fight. Steve won; the same day he was killed in a polo game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Western Sandwich | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

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