Word: pennsylvania
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Jack D. Andrews, of La Crosse, Wisconsin; Alan S. Evans, of Ridley Park, Pennsylvania; William R. Eyler, of Toledo, Ohio; Richard B. Finn, of Niagara Falls, New York; Ralph T. Fuller, of Hudson Ohio; Frederick W. Heckel, 3d., of Wrightsville, Pennsylvania; Lawrence M. Levinson, of Chattanooga, Tennessee; Allen E. Puckett, of Chicago Heights, Illinois; Joseph S. Harvin, of Fort Worth, Texas; Walter J. Bate, of Richmond, Indiana; Richard R. Beatty, Jr., of Kansas City, Missouri, Clayton J. Clawson, of Madera, California; Edger L. Haff, Jr., of Fort Edward, New York; Martin Lichterman, of Brooklyn, New York; William W. Minton...
Despite the unanimous decision of the Court in the Schechter case, the coal bill sponsored by Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph Guffey was ramrodded through Congress for three good reasons: 1) President Roosevelt publicly advised Congressmen to pass it, "however reasonable'' might be their doubts as to its constitutionality; 2) the United Mine Workers of America threatened a strike unless it was enacted; 3) most Northern coal operators favored the law because it promised to fix coal wages, thereby preventing Southern operators from underselling them. Last week before the Supreme Court the lawyers of several Southern coal operators...
...blunt and battered weapons with which it had failed to save NRA. Donald Richberg and Solicitor General Stanley Reed were not heard again in the courtroom nor were their arguments. This time the Government's counsel was John Dickinson, onetime professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, later Assistant Secretary of Commerce, now Assistant Attorney General. He had worked up new arguments with the aid of his old friend. Professor Edward S. Corwin of Princeton. Their prime point was that if the Government has power to regulate interstate commerce, it has thereby power to regulate prices of goods...
...briefs filed by no less than seven coal-producing states, each saying that it could not satisfactorily regulate the coal trade because of its interstate nature, that it wanted Federal help. Such briefs by states disclaiming any Federal invasion of their rights were something new. The Democratic Governors of Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Indiana, Illinois, Washington, Kentucky, Ohio, gratefully supplied the New Deal with these unusual testimonials. Whether all the Governors had a right to do so was at least debatable. Governor Davey of Ohio, who has a Republican Attorney General, had to have his brief filed by his secretary. These...
Pale, saturnine Hilaire Hiler was born in St. Paul, educated at the University of Pennsylvania. All his life he wanted to be a painter, but virtually his only formal education in the arts was a few lessons on the saxophone. Serious critics have praised his work, night-club proprietors have admired his murals, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Mrs. John Work Garrett have bought his paintings...