Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since then, the Court has made the interstate commerce clause apply to a great many things not only in transit but affecting interstate commerce. When the Constitution was written the country was in the horse and buggy stage. There was no interstate commerce to speak of. ... There was no problem of unemployment or buying power, no national social questions. Even ethics were different. If one fellow could get away with skinning another in business that was all right. Now transportation has brought the states together and the country has a new philosophy of business...
Does this decision mean that the U. S. has no control over any national economic problem? The simplest example is crop adjustment. Is the Federal Government to take its hands off adjusting crops? If we do, it is a safe bet there will soon be 36? wheat and 5? cotton...
This brings us to an issue, not a partisan issue but a national issue : Are the people going to decide that the Government has no right or power to enter into any national economic problem? Shall we view social problems in the same...
...rough voyage on an unknown, unchartered and foggy sea, during which it tacked and veered and took many wrong courses (for much of which I was to blame)-the fog suddenly lifted and disclosed a blank wall of a seemingly impassable cliff-the decision in the Schechter case. The problem now is not to pick up its wreckage but to steer a course around that barrier...
Birth control is another problem, posed by instructed delegates from Arkansas, California and New York, which the A. M. A. meeting must handle...