Word: enjoins
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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...
Compliance Director William H Davis presided at the hearing. The dry-cleaners were read a decision just handed down in a New Jersey State court, permitting the NRA to enjoin a cleaner from cutting prices, on the grounds that "no citizen has any right in this emergency" to defy his industrial code. Chief plaint heard by the Compliance Director was that cash-&-carry cleaners were required to charge their customers the same rates as call-&-deliver cleaners. In chorus the cash-&-carriers squealed that they were being ruined...
...this advice to lead Christian lives of temperance, hard-work, and worship were not enough, the rules went on to enjoin all students to "eschew all profanation of the God's name," and further, that "they studiously redeeme the time" and "dillegently attend the lectures without any disturbance by word or gesture...
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...