Word: schechters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year after their "sick chicken" had routed the Blue Eagle in the U. S. Supreme Court at a cost to them of $20,000, Brooklyn's four NRA-hating Schechter brothers were discovered to be broke, their home and their big poultry jobbing business gone. Last week in Brooklyn the press turned up another martyr to the cause of Rugged Individualism in the person of Joe Tipaldo, laundryman who fought New York's minimum wage law for women up to the U. S. Supreme Court and won (TIME, June...
...Brooklyn the four Schechter Brothers, whose triumph in the U. S. Supreme Court last year smashed the NRA, disclosed that they have lost their poultry business, once the city's largest, that the mortgage on their old father's house has been foreclosed, that they have nothing left but a batch of clippings, a letter from the Liberty League...
Said the Court: "The only perceptible difference between [the NRA Schechter] case and this is that in the Schechter case the Federal power was asserted with respect to commodities which had come to rest after their interstate transportation, while here, the case deals with commodities at rest before interstate commerce has begun. The difference is without significance...
Speaking to the assembled young Democrats the President seemed blissfully unconscious of the Schechter case, and the defeat of the Blue Eagle at the hands of the domestic chicken. Otherwise he must consider that eagle somewhat of a phoenix, hourly expecting it to spring from its ashes. For the plan he proposes for curbing unemployment, certainly involves the N.R.A. principles of labor control. The establishment of higher wages and shorter hours by governmental authority are the very tools so clearly condemned about a year ago. Defining the age range of the employable to make more room for competent middle-aged...
...Court Chamber was filled during these arguments, and no sooner was a seat vacated than it was instantly refilled by those who had been standing in a queue outside. Attorneys, watching critically to see what New Dealer Dickinson could do with a case that in the shadow of the Schechter decision looked far from hopeful, credited him with an able lawyer-like job. Curious laymen who hoped the Justices would pink the New Deal's attorneys fore & aft with embarrassing questions were disappointed. Neither the argument of Mr. Dickinson nor the argument of his opponents was interrupted except...