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Last May the nine Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court sat in judgment on a sick chicken sold by Schechter Bros, of Brooklyn. Their verdict was death for NRA. Last week the same Court sat in judgment on one of the late chicken's eggs, the Guffey Coal...
Other administrative headaches would include the railroads' loss of passenger traffic to the motor car and the bus; the loss of short-haul freight business to the truck; the Railroad Retirement Act of 1935, the Social Security Act and the Guffey Coal Act; and the Interstate Commerce Commission's reduction of passenger fares last fortnight to a 2? a mile maximum on coaches and 3? on Pullmans...
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...
...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...