Word: rent-control
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...Five rent-control cases, which went into special three-judge Federal courts because they involved constitutionality, have been fought through successfully by tough little Talbot Smith, OPA rent lawyer. Two of these cases were in South Bend, two in Mobile, one in Wichita-but though widely separated on the map, all the cases were curiously alike in their defense-arguing that the act delegated legislative powers to a Governmental agency which should be exercised specifically by Congress. OPA's Lawyer Brunson MacChesney, chief of the compliance section, thinks the similarity no coincidence, believes there exists an organized resistance...