Word: schechter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a Philadelphia businesswoman attempted suicide because of the Supreme Court's decision in the Schechter case...
...alone-after a 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...
...jewels back from New York to Florida after the robbery. Two days later their net widened to include four notorious Broadway characters charged with complicity in the crime. Scaffa's attorney, his mind whirling with headlines about interstate commerce, commenced to argue that the Supreme Court's Schechter decision had invalidated the Stolen Property Act as well as the NIRA. The judge promptly shut him up, fixed Scaffa's bail...
Only persons to worry, however, about legal guilt were four Brooklyn poulterers, Joseph, Martin, Alex & Aaron Schechter. Were they guilty of violating the law of the land because, contrary to the Poultry Code, they had allowed their customers to pick what chickens they bought, instead of making customers take chickens by the coop, good and bad alike? Were they guilty because, also contrary to code, they had sold an allegedly sick chicken? Guilty for not paying their employes code wages, not working them code hours? For not making proper code reports? For conspiring to do these things? A Federal Circuit...
...Franklin Roosevelt had were not disclosed. Felix Frankfurter, who was credited with advising the President to postpone a court test until NRA was an established success, and Mr. Richberg, who had declined to make the Court test on the Belcher lumber case (TIME, April 8) and then picked the Schechter case as the best way of taking NRA to Court, must both have felt distinctly sheepish. New Deal lieutenants on the House Ways & Means Committee fiddled around fruitlessly with a new bill to plug the holes the Supreme Court had dug in the Recovery...