Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph Guffey made his money in oil, is making his political reputation in coal. To the miners he cried that if the little NRA for the soft coal industry, set up under the Guffey Bill, is declared unconstitutional, "I promise you that so far as I am concerned, the battle will continue. ... I am in this fight to a finish!'' Thereupon the miners rushed up and wrung "Joe"' Guffey's hand so vigorously that he had to nurse it for the rest...
...taxes, imposed for purposes of regulation rather than for the purpose of raising money, are constitutional or unconstitutional depending on whether Congress, through its other powers, is entitled to undertake such particular regulation. By inference the penalty taxes of the Bankhead Cotton Control Act, Kerr-Smith Tobacco Act, the Guffey Coal Act, cannot be upheld as constitutional taxes, can only be upheld if the aims of those acts are within the proper powers of Congress...
...pretext of the exertion of powers which are granted. . . . Resort to the taxing power to effectuate an end which is not legitimate, not within the scope of the Constitution, is obviously inadmissible." The Bankhead Cotton Act's taxes are also imposed for the regulation of agriculture; the Guffey Coal Act taxes are imposed for the regulation of coal production. Neither form of regulation is to be found among Congress' enumerated powers. Therefore, without mentioning them, Mr. Justice Roberts practically rendered in advance the Supreme Court's verdict on those laws as well...
...pensions, interest on the public debt, AAA, CCC-are to spend $2,586,000,000 in fiscal 1937 as compared to $1,083,000,000 in fiscal 1935. In part this represents more conservative bookkeeping, in part mounting expenses for administering new laws such as Social Security, the Guffey Coal Act, etc. Completely forgotten was the 1932 Democratic campaign promise to reduce the regular cost of Republican government by the striking figure of 25% (TIME...
Even if the A. A. A. had not been unconstitutional, it would have remained one of the worst acts passed in the History of the United States, ranking only with such recognized monstrosities as the Wagner Labor Hill, the Guffey Coal Act, and the N. R. A. The idea that a President should have the power to bribe districts of non-sympathetic voters with direct cash payments is unbelievable. But to have the effrontery to make these payments for nothing,--nay, for less than nothing, for refraining from doing something productive and constructive for the country--, transports...