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...Journal, a quarterly devoted to solidifying and expanding the out-of-court sphere of law. Honorary editor of the Journal is famed onetime (1921-28) World Court Justice John Bassett Moore. Active editorial direction is in the hands of the A. A. A.'s perennial president, Lucius Root Eastman, 62, president of The Hills Brothers Co., big Manhattan importers and manufacturers (Dromedary Dates, grapefruit juice, pimentos), and a board including Educator Isaiah Bowman and President Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines Corp...
...their five years' ordeal. For, heading out of the Depression in 1937, the U. S. railroads find themselves today not so rich in materials as they were in 1929, but far richer in resource and morale. A ringside spectator at 17 years of railroad history is Joseph Bartlett Eastman, a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission since 1919, and the New Deal's erstwhile Coordinator of Transportation. Skeptical about private ownership as he is, nevertheless he told the Boston Chamber of Commerce last fortnight: "It is hard to be cold about the transportation situation today, because...
Quoting several Supreme Court decisions, Eastman pointed out that the duties of the Commission were quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial, and that emphasis in his opinion should be placed on the former function. He then went on to explain the set-up of the Commission, and discussed at some length the varius committees, staffs, and bureaus...
...Eastman devoted the last half of his speech to a defense of public service agencies. He asserted that delay, due to so-called bureaucratic red-tape, was a result of the difficulty in interpreting laws, knowing what evidence to accept and exclude, and making a decision fully backed by the most minute detail. If all these factors were not taken into account, endless litigation would quickly follow. But the greatest cause for delay, Eastman believes, is the vast undertaking of collecting data on large interstate organizations...
Asked what effect the president's proposal for regrouping bureaus would have on the status of the I.C.C., Eastman replied that he had not had time to study the law fully...