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Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold brought criminal action against the Carpenters on the grounds of interference with interstate commerce, argued that unions are subject to the Sherman antitrust act. Justice Frankfurter held instead that the 1914 Clayton Act and the 1932 Norris-LaGuardia Act tended to exempt unions from anti-trust law, granted labor immunity from anti-trust prosecution no matter how directly their jurisdictional disputes operate in restraint of trade...
...decision staggered Justice Owen Roberts, Chief Justice Hughes, the press -and particularly Thurman Arnold. Said the two dissenters, in language clear and vigorous as that of Mr. Holmes: ". . . Resurrecting a rejected construction of the Clayton Act and extending a policy strictly limited by the Congress itself in the Norris-LaGuardia Act, seems ... a usurpation by the courts of the function of the Congress not only novel but fraught . . . with the most serious dangers. ... I venture to say that no court has ever undertaken so radically to legislate where Congress has refused...
...Wendell Willkie returned to the U. S. from the British Isles and the war. At 8:05 one cold morning the Dixie Clipper, glittering in the bright morning sun, loomed over the Whitestone Bridge, came down for a perfect landing in the choppy water off New York's LaGuardia Airport. The returning traveler, extremely tired, his white shirt rumpled, his gray herringbone suit needing pressing, waved for photographers, greeted his son, kissed his wife, and said: "I'm glad to be home...
Married. Sarah Brisbane McCrary, 27, daughter of the late Editor-Columnist Arthur Brisbane; and Chase Mellen Jr., 43, Deputy Treasurer of New York City, last year leader of Republicans-for-Roosevelt in New York City; she for the second time; in Manhattan. Mayor LaGuardia performed the ceremony...
...heard from the outside. Last week the voice was silenced. Sitting in his Manhattan study, Kenneth Simpson collapsed with a heart attack, managed to call to his wife for help before he died. Tributes poured in from many he had fought-from President Roosevelt, Tom Dewey, Mayor LaGuardia. The short story of Kenneth Simpson's national career was over...