Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago at Tampa, Fla., Federal Judge Alexander Akerman made national news when he removed a handful of feathers from the Blue Eagle's tail by refusing to enjoin a dry cleaner who had violated NRA's minimum price agreement (TIME, Dec. 11). In Judge Akerman's opinion, the cleaner was not engaged in interstate commerce and therefore Congress, through the Recovery Act, had no power to regulate his business. If Congress claimed such authority, observed Judge Akerman, the Constitution would be voided and anarchy would ensue. NRA's power and prestige saved its face when...
...Federal Judge in North Carolina dismissed the indictments. The Government appealed to the Supreme Court. Last week Chief Justice Hughes handed down a unanimous decision freeing not only 'Leggers Gibson and Chambers but also some 13,000 others indicted under a law that vanished from the statute books Dec. 5. The Supreme Court held that the courts had no power to try men after Repeal who might have committed, before Repeal, what was then a crime...
...mines, smelters, metallurgical plants, factories and, on his last trip, the colonies of ex-Red soldiers now being established by Dictator Stalin's orders as the patriotic rallying points of luckless Russians who are being forced to colonize Red Far East open spaces as buffers to Japan (TIME, Dec...
Epilog. Thursday, Dec. 12, 1799, the weather being very bad, rain, hail and snow falling alternately, Washington rode out to his farm as usual, returned with coat and hair wet by snow, and sat down to dinner without changing his clothes. Next day he showed signs of a cold. His throat was hoarse. Washington, answering remonstrances: "I never take anything for a cold. Let it go as it came...
...individual churches do their own thinking and talking. This church last week was the first to come out against the scheme of Chicago's Adolph Oettinger Goodwin to gear piety with business in such a way that church folk would get rebates for buying selected merchandise (TIME, Dec...