Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who dwell in marble halls are not uniformly blessed. Last week in Boston Victor L. Chrisler of the National Bureau of Standards revealed that the nine Justices of the Supreme Court of the U. S. are homesick for the good hearing that they enjoyed in their little vestibule of a courtroom in the Capitol. In their vast new marble chamber, in their vast new marble building, the acoustics are so poor that when Mr. Justice Roberts at one end of the bench leans forward to ask a question, Mr. Justice Cardozo at the other end can hardly hear...
Acoustics was only one of the Court's troubles this week as it began to hear arguments in the first of a series of cases in which it must weigh the velvet provided by the New Deal for farmers against the cold marble of the Constitution. Seldom, however, has the Court had so many friends as went to its aid. Friends of the Court included the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Mountain States Beet Growers' Marketing Association, the National Beet Growers' Association offering briefs in defense of AAA. Hygrade Food Products, National Biscuit, P. Lorillard turned...
...products. Hoosac Mills says it is not because the power to regulate interstate commerce does not include power to tax products that have not yet entered interstate commerce. With all this friendly but contradictory advice already before them in briefs, the nine Justices this week entered their courtroom to hear what was still to be said. The great columned chamber was jammed with notables. Down in front sat Pennsylvania's George Wharton Pepper, counsel for Hoosac Mills, with his client, Mr. Butler, beside him. Farther back sat Mrs. Pepper with an admiring eye on her frock-coated husband...
...sometimes hear reformers say that business ought not to be competition for private profit but co-operation for public service. That is not the wisest way of putting the matter. . . . Modern business often looks like a huge system-or chaos -of competition for private profit; but it never really is that; it always is cooperation for public service. It is for the public service because if no one wants the product there will be no purchasers, no purchase price, no wages and no profits. Except insofar as it serves the public, business cannot...
...peaceable and his slaves had little to do, he sent 20,000 of them into the forest to dig a ditch about 40 feet wide, 20 feet deep. "Not for war," explained King Oguola. "But when I die and people say 'Who was Oguola?' they will hear 'he was the King that dug the Big Ditch...