Word: guffey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Imponderables. Over & above the legislative mischances which may rise from the President's program and the disruptions within Congress, are two great unknowns. One is the actions of the Supreme Court. With decisions on AAA and the Bankhead Cotton Control Act close at hand, with decisions on the Guffey Coal Act. the Public Utility Act, the Labor Disputes Act in the offing, the possibility of one or more New Deal upsets means that at any time Congress may turn to tackle new legislative problems...
...perhaps propose the repeal of all Roosevelt's measures, although the A.A.A., the Guffey Act, the Wagner Labor Bill, the Social Security Act, and the Neutrality Law might go with great good effect. But let us, above all, repeal unreliability and treachery and flibbety-gibbety in government; let us, next fall, repeal the Roosevelt Presidency. In the midst of our great Three Hundredth Anniversary Celebration let the presence of this man serve as a useful antidote to the natural overemphasis of Harvard's successes...
...were having the time of their lives. Burdened with an immense responsibility, faced with the necessity of soon rendering decisions on the constitutionality of AAA processing taxes, the Bankhead Cotton Control Act, TVA (all probably to be argued in December) and later on the constitutionality of the Guffey Coal Act (see col. 3) and the Utilities Act, the Justices began the week by whipping off no less than 21 decisions. None of the decisions affected the New Deal but, with a vigor that belied their age, every one of the nine Justices dissented in from one to five opinions. Four...
...this anti-New Dealer, President Roosevelt appointed handsome, silvery haired Elwood Hamilton, a reliable New Dealer.* Predecessor Dawson shortly argued before Successor Hamilton that the New Deal law requiring prison-made goods to be labeled as such was unconstitutional. Not so, decided Judge Hamilton. Next, Lawyer Dawson attacked the Guffey Coal Act, lineal descendant of the NRA coal code which he, as judge, had declared unconstitutional. Sound as a drum, Judge Hamilton last week called a second strike against his predecessor...
...page opinion, the New Deal judge told 19 protesting coal companies that it was perfectly legal for Congress to pass the Guffey Act imposing a penalty tax of 13½% on the value of their output unless they would submit to government regulation of wages and coal prices by the equivalent of what NRA called a Code Authority. In doing so he propounded a doctrine which differed not only from that of his predecessor but from that of the Supreme Court in the Schechter (NRA) case: Judge Hamilton: "The bituminous coal industry as now conducted affects interstate commerce and, this...