Word: establisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drastic regulation. But the later effectiveness of the Interstate Commerce Commission points the way to a practical control of American economy. The basic industries of the nation do business on a nation-wide scale, and are subject to control by the federal government. Thus it has the power to establish a truly effectual regulation of the commerce, and to institute a measure of the economic order which is needed. It is too soon to hope for developments of such magnitude, but when they come they must come in a workable form, not in the guise of easily frustated "advisory" boards...
...Bowed to a filibuster against a bill by Florida's Owen to establish a national park in the Everglades...
...such relative terms as "reasonable," "arbitrary" and "legitimate." Thus a century of evolution transformed the 5th Amendment into a weapon with which the Court could suppress any regulatory experiments by Congress of which it disapproved. In the hands of the Supreme Court the 5th Amendment wrecked an effort to establish a minimum wage law for women in the District of Columbia, on the ground that such a law violated "liberty of contract." Likewise zoning laws were annulled because they unconstitutionally deprived owners of the free use of their property. To circumvent this "due process" clause Congress, whose attempt to stamp...
...penalize Pullman Co. for letting down empty upper berths? The Supreme Court says Wisconsin would unconstitutionally deprive the company of its "liberty." May Florida fix certain below-cost freight rates on special commodities to build up a local industry? No, says the Supreme Court. Does North Dakota want to establish a freight tariff so unreasonably low that the Northern Pacific cries "Robbery!"? The Supreme Court agrees with Northern Pacific. Laws compelling school attendance, vaccination, burials within city limits, junk dealing, theatre-ticket scalping, regulated rents?for all such questions of State experimentation the 14th Amendment is a judicial catchall. Only...
There are in the U. S. more than 100 Negro weeklies, semi-weeklies & thrice-weeklies, but of many efforts to establish and maintain a Negro daily none has succeeded. Discerning Negro editors recognize several reasons, 1) In large cities big department stores do not want Negro trade, would not advertise in a Negro daily. 2) White dailies widely cover the Negro field. 3) Most neighborhood stores are slow to advertise anywhere, would choose a Negro paper last. In the face of such obstacles the Atlanta World last fortnight stepped up its publication from thrice-weekly to daily, proudly declared itself...