Word: irvin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against NRA itself. One weapon was Lawyer Frederick H. Wood, of the portentous Manhattan law firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, who argued for the Schechter Brothers. This time he argued for James Walter Carter of Carter Coal Co. with mines in the Virginias. Another weapon was Charles Irvin Dawson, who before he resigned as a Federal judge in Kentucky had declared the NRA coal code unconstitutional. Last week his clients were 19 Kentucky coal companies whose case was joined with that of Coalman Carter. Other weapons were arguments used in overthrowing NRA, that prices, wages, hours...
...times, Franklin Roosevelt inaugurated the custom of letting the Cabinet give him one big joint dinner. One evening last week the Cabinet solemnly assembled at the Mayflower Hotel to dine their chief. At the appointed time he did not appear. They waited and waited. At the White House Valet Irvin McDuffy was desperately turning the Presidential wardrobe inside out: the President's white pearl vest buttons could not be found. Having stewed for nearly half an hour, the Cabinet finally had the pleasure of seeing Mrs. Roosevelt arrive accompanied by her husband with a row of black buttons down...
Edward Riley Stettinius will probably never know so much about steel making as Steel's President William A. Irvin. He certainly will never know so much about Steel's finances as the fabulous Mr. Filbert. Yet he is apparently being groomed to succeed Chairman Myron Taylor. And Mr. Taylor, like his predecessor, is not a steel man but a lawyer. The Steel Corp.'s prime requirement is executive talent. If pure essence of executive potency can move brontosaurian Steel Corp., Edward Riley Stettinius will surely move...
...Irvin G. Bieser '24, vice-president, Refiners Oil Building, Dayton. Harvard Club of Fairmont, West...
From 1925 until last June Charles Irvin Dawson was Federal Judge in the Western District of Kentucky. From that bench he held unconstitutional: 1) Federal condamnation of land for slum clearance, 2) the Kerr-Smith Tobacco Act, 3) the NRA Coal Code. Then he resigned, because "I have been greatly disturbed by the tendency of Congress in the last three years to override all Constitutional limitations in the enactment of so-called New Deal legislation. . . . One of the impelling motives that prompted me to quit the bench was the deep-seated conviction that in the next few years I would...