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Last week President Roosevelt won his opening legal skirmish on the National Recovery Act in the District of Columbia Supreme Court. A Texas refiner attacked his executive order prohibiting the interstate shipment of "hot oil," sought to enjoin Secretary of the Interior Ickes from enforcing it. In a free & easy decision which ducked the issue of constitutionality Justice Joseph Winston Cox refused to grant the injunction. Declared...
...Such intense journalism might have cowed the Post in the decadent days of the McLean regime, but Publisher Meyer refused to lie down. In Washing ton his lawyers got an order restraining the Herald from printing the features. A court dissolved it. In Manhattan other Post lawyers tried to enjoin the Tribune Co. from selling to the Herald. On the crucial day, Washington newsreaders were treated to an extraordinary sight. The Gumps, Winkles, Tracy, et al. appeared in the Herald, and also in the Post. Everyone knew that one of the dailies would have to drop them, but none could...
...retired financier. Cyrus Eaton disappeared from the headlines as completely as if he had died. Last week bushy-browed old President Bishop was making a last stand against his creditors' determination to sell what remained of Continental's shriveled assets. Week before he sought in vain to enjoin Chase National from auctioning off the stocks pledged for a $27,000,000 loan...
...light of my duty to the Fatherland I will not entrust such power to a party which intends to make use of it so one-sidedly ! . . . You are to be then in opposition! I trust you will oppose in a way that will be chivalrous, and I enjoin you in your future course to keep always in mind your duty to the Fatherland and your responsibility to the German people." Adolf Hitler made no promise, clicked his heels, bowed, left the room. He rushed into conference with other Nazi leaders before returning to his headquarters at Munich. Chancellor von Papen...
...labor dispute can get a Federal injunction will be to prove to the court that he has made "every reasonable effort" to settle the strike; to show under oath that unlawful acts have been committed or threatened against him and to convince the judge that failure to enjoin the strikers will do him "substantial and irreparable" injury. He must also file an adequate bond to recompense the strikers in case the injunction is quashed...