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...main line to the Supreme Court by handing down an unwritten decision granting the demurrer on the grounds that Mr. Belcher was being deprived of his property without due process of law, that the Recovery Act unlawfully delegated judicial and legislative powers to the President, that the lumber business is an intrastate affair and therefore no Federal concern...
...Jersey in the early 1890s by way of the Columbia School of Mines, William Butler has done most of his business through intermediaries. He was first employed by the Rockefellers at the Monte Cristo gold and silver properties near Everett. When the ore deposits proved shallow, he switched to lumber. For years an ally of the mighty Weyerhaeusers, William Butler chose to stick to the comparatively secure logging business, let others do the milling and merchandising. He got the reputation of driving a hard business bargain. A lumberman named Joe Irving, wrathful at being squeezed by Butler, is said...
...late years, mysterious Banker Butler has expanded into other phases of the lumber business and, according to local gossip, mellowed. He is still a recluse, living in a mansion overlooking Puget Sound, taking solitary trips East and to California with his wife. And he still conducts his banking business, and his political operations, through close-mouthed Lieutenants. But ever since the death of his only son after a tonsillectomy in 1918, Banker Butler, whom few dare call "Bill" to his face, has been gradually loosening the strings on his money bags. With three others, he built a fine new hospital...
Every well-informed citizen of Kansas City knows how the late Robert Alexander Long went into the lumber business, boosted Long-Bell to be the largest lumber company in the world operating under one ownership, built the company city of Longview, Wash., and paid himself, as founder-chairman, a $60,000 salary during good years. The first years of his married life Lumberman Long passed in a $700 cottage in a corner of a lumber yard. But before he died last March, aged 83, he had erected for himself a huge 70-room porticoed limestone and marble Renaissance house-fine...
Emergency v. Emergency. At Welch, W. Va., a sawmill operator named Killem worked his employes more than 40 hr. a week, paid some of 'them less than the 28.5¢ minimum hourly wage required by the Lumber & Timber Products Code. The McDowell County prosecutor went to Circuit Judge Beno F. Howard, asked for an injunction against Miller Killem under the State NRA enforcement law. Judge Howard must have remembered the motto of West Virginia, Montani Semper Liberi (Mountaineers Always Freemen), when he handed down his decision. Maintaining that it was "not the purpose of this decision to interfere with...