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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Among the few U. S. columnists who admire Franklin Roosevelt, none is more loyal than William Randolph Hearst's Walter Winchell, the nation's No. 1 expert on Broadway. In Washington to pick the Government's prettiest female employe, Columnist Winchell dropped in for a White House press conference, stayed 43 minutes, swapped stories with the President. Mr. Roosevelt's best story concerned his most embarrassing moment: when, as Wartime Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he set a trap for a lady friend whom he suspected of espionage. The trap was never sprung...
Since joining the Court last year, Hugo LaFayette Black has been its most spectacular dissenter. In his total of 13 dissents he has entered nine solitary dissents to four for Justice McReynolds, one each for Justices Butler & Reed, none for the rest of his colleagues. Last March, The Nation hailed the liberal tone of Justice Black's dissenting opinions, particularly one in which he contradicted the Court's 50-year-old interpretation of the 14th Amendment as applying to corporations.* Last month, however, a Harper's article by Marquis Childs reviewed Hugo Black's first year...
...Stalin or a Mussolini, President Franco by decree subordinated all Rightist Spanish news-organs to his Government last week. Under Article 17 of the new law the Government "shall have the power to punish administratively any conduct which directly or indirectly tends to hurt the prestige of the Nation or of this Regime, obstructs the work of the Government of the new State, or sows pernicious ideas among weak intellects." Thus were the wings of every Rightist Spanish newspaperman officially clipped...
WASHINGTON--Works Progress administrator Harry L. Hopkins said today that the WPA will have to increase its rolls, probably to a new record peak, it the near future to meet a "serious" relief crisis in all the nation's industrial centers...
WASHINGTON--Secretary of Agriculture henry A. Wallace said today that a new battle to prevent the nation's judiciary from exercising power over administrative functions of government appears to have been opened as result of the Supreme Court's decision in the Kansas City stockyards case. Criticizing the stockyards decision--in which he charged that the Supreme Court reversed itself--and a proposal by a "prominent corporation attorney whose opinions in the post have carried great weight in the courts" that rate making powers of Federal regulatory agencies should be transferred by Congress to the courts, Wallace said, "One year...