Word: processed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same 5-4 lineup in the Supreme Court which supported the government in the Minnesota mortgage moratorium has given its approval to the new statute for price fixing in the milk industry. It is impossible to read Justice Roberts' majority opinion, with its weighty talk of the due process clause, without feeling that the due process clause is only another name for gum elastic; the things which the court says in favor of price fixing are justified by the same clause which once defeated child labor legislation...
...surely no very cynical asperity that sees in the dodges of due process and absence of "arbitrary and discriminatory motive" the symptoms of intellectual bankruptcy, of an incapacity to realize the issues which the Roosevelt administration has created. Obviously Congress is unable to see those issues; the Court merely says, when a concrete matter is put up to it for decision, that we must abide by the rulings of Congress, because our government is founded on the sovereignty of the legislature. When then, is there room for calling the Court liberal or reactionary, for calling any decision made on these...
...week Founder-President Floyd Bostwick Odium mailed to 46,000 stockholders a report revealing that their company, now simply Atlas Corp., was the largest investment trust in the U. S. with $121,000,000 in assets. Dearer to the hearts of the stockholders was the fact that in the process of gobbling up a score of other trusts during the past four years, President Odium had more than doubled the asset value of their shares. At the turn of the year Atlas stock had a net asset value of $11.02 a share, compared with...
...final review, but will be able to work quickly to its own conclusions without fear of reversal. The major triumph of this ukase lies not simply in the fact that the compliance board was outrageously biased in favor of the employer in most disputes, but in this; that the process of mediation will be stepped up to something more than the snailspace which is causing such widespread disillusion with the entire scheme of dispute-settlement. In strikes, the element of time is absolutely vital to the union involved; and delay in arbitration may quash the walk-out more surely, more...
...consolidation of these two tasks--security insurance and stock exchange transactions--is in process of being consummated. It will present an opportunity for clarification of certain ambiguous provisions in the present law and for the removal of clauses that are believed to be holding back the revival of capital markets generally...