Word: schechters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal problems of bank relief. Even in those busy days, though, Stanley Forman Reed was under less strain than he was last week. Since he became U. S. Solicitor General last March, he has fought one great case on behalf of the New Deal-the Schechter (NIRA) Case-and lost...
...Bruce Barton; Camelman S. Clay Williams; Kodakman William G. Stuber; Soapman Richard R. Deupree: Woolman Lionel J. Noah; President Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; President Ray Wantz of Rockford (Ill.) Fibre Container Co. About the only notable business figures absent were Brooklyn's poultry-dealing Brothers Schechter, who upset NRA, and that embattled Manhattan jeweler, Norman C. Norman, who carried his "Gold Clause" case to the Supreme Court...
...their output unless they would submit to government regulation of wages and coal prices by the equivalent of what NRA called a Code Authority. In doing so he propounded a doctrine which differed not only from that of his predecessor but from that of the Supreme Court in the Schechter (NRA) case: Judge Hamilton: "The bituminous coal industry as now conducted affects interstate commerce and, this being true, the court is without power to substitute a different judgment for that of Congress." Supreme Court: "Where the effect of intrastate transactions upon interstate commerce is merely indirect, such transactions remain within...
When President Roosevelt impulsively followed up the Supreme Court's Schechter case decision by hinting that AAA might go the way of NRA, alert processing taxpayers began a scramble to the courts. By this week that scramble had become a stampede. Headed by Minneapolis' General Mills, Inc., world's biggest grain millers, and Manchester, N.H.'s Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., world's biggest cotton cloth manufacturers, no less than 117 potent processors had filed suits for recovery of taxes paid or for injunctions against collection of taxes due. With some $10,000,000 in taxes already involved, new suits were piling...
Huey Long quoted from the Bible, tried to look up his quotation in the Book of Hosea, found it was not there. So he expounded some other passages instead. Then he asked how many Senators had read the Schechter case decision. Only Idaho's Borah held up his hand. Thereupon Senator Long proceeded to expound...