Word: processer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election the Supreme Court has thrown a bomb into the lap of the American people which should do much to crack the wall of adoration surrounding the Constitution. The five-to-four decision invalidating the New York minimum wage law for adult women shows that from now on "due process of law" will be as effective in preventing the individual states from enlisting social legislation as it was when Congress tried to do the same for the District of Columbia in the twenties...
...famous Adkins decision in 1923. If there are any differences, they are of a highly technical nature and of small importance. All that concerned the majority of the court was that such laws interfere with the so-called "liberty of contract" which is protected by the "due process" of the fifth and fourteenth amendments. Liberty is taking on strange disguises indeed, when a state which tries to prevent an employer from exploiting women is violating the liberty of some sacrosanct individual...
Radicals, in revolt against such a decision, would have us scrap the Constitution or the Court, or both. This extreme solution would doubtlessly create more new problems than it would solve old ones. Still, the wheels of the Constitution are creaking badly. Until "due process" is pried out of the document into which it once crept when no one was watching, both Congress and the legislatures will continue to be irresponsible debating societies, while the nine justices of the Supreme Court carefully carry the key to their padded cell...
...necessary to repair his throat. Dr. Jackson's first direct step is to compress a small-sized rubber form and insert it into the puckered throat. The rubber upon expanding stretches the throat slightly. Soon as the throat accommodates itself to the stretch. Dr. Jackson repeats the process by inserting a core of larger diameter. "The treatment," said he last week, "is highly successful with children. But it should never be undertaken unless the physician has the patience...
...analgesic that is perfectly safe for both mother and child has not been discovered. The use of anything that deadens sensation distorts the natural process of childbirth and depresses the respiratory functions of the child. Certainly no woman will wish to be relieved of pain at the risk of harm to her baby...