Word: moratoriumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite possible that a liberal justice would vote to give California Convict Tom Mooney a hearing (as the Supreme Court did last fortnight) or to uphold a state mortgage moratorium law and then balk at the idea of pensioning all aged railroad employes, fixing the price of ice in San Antonio or the price of a hair cut in Jersey City or enforcing collective bargaining in a steel plant-all on the legal theory that these things help to regulate and maintain the free flow of interstate commerce...
...served Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge four years as Secretary of State and in 1930 Herbert Hoover gave him the highest judicial post in the land. Where does the Chief Justice stand today? New Dealers find it a delicate point. In such liberal victories as the Minnesota Moratorium and the first New York Milk Control cases. Chief Justice Hughes's vote was decisive in 5-4 divisions of the court. Yet New Dealers do not count upon him in the long legal pull ahead...
Still under a full head of steam, Huey Long next announced that he was going to call another special session of the Legislature, empower the Public Service Commission to declare a moratorium on all debts within the State for two years...
...short, incomplete and spotty record, the Supreme Court is said to be disposed, by the thinnest of margins, to take a broad view of recovery legislation. Widely advertised as victories for the Administration were the Minnesota mortgage moratorium (TIME. Jan. 15) and New York milk cases. In each instance the Supreme Court lined up 5-to-4 in favor of the New Deal: Chief Justice Hughes, Justices Brandeis. Stone, Roberts, Cardozo against dissenting Justices Sutherland, Butler, McReynolds, Van Devanter. But thoughtful conservatives point out that those cases did not involve Federal legislation and that since the laws in question were...
Calling for a halt to current unrest, confusion, and instability, and declaring the "need of a moratorium on strikes", Dean Donham told the ad men that "there is no chance of avoiding labor rackets and disorganization in face of sudden rapid growth resulting from government support. The labor movement is unready for the vast responsibilities thrust upon...