Word: schechters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NIRB Chairman Donald Richberg last week stuck his hand into the grab bag of NRA litigation and pulled out another case which he said the Government would quickly carry to the Supreme Court for the test the country seemed to demand. The case: U. S. v. A. L. A. Schechter Poultry Corp., Schechter Poultry Market, Joseph Martin, Alex & Aaron Schechter...
...Assistant President" Richberg produced a number of reasons for preferring the Schechter case to the Belcher case as a battleground for Constitutional appeal. Whereas the Belcher case had been routed around the Circuit Court of Appeals and its record consisted only of bare charges and a general demurrer, the Schechter case had a 1,647-page trial record, had passed from the district court through the Circuit Court. Not given as a reason for his preference was Mr. Richberg's enthusiastic declaration that the Circuit Court's Schechter opinion "sustained the constitutionality of NRA right across the board...