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...Deal regulation of coal began with NRA, died in the Schechter chicken coop. The first coal regulation act (Guffey Act) passed with the help of a strike threat by John L. Lewis in 1935, was knocked out by the Supreme Court a year later. The second act, passed in 1937, created a National Bituminous Coal Commission, which at once tangled itself so thoroughly in politics that Franklin Roosevelt reorganized it out of existence and turned its job over to the Department of the Interior. There for nearly a year Director Howard Adams Gray and his able General Counsel Abe Fortas...
...Justice William Orville Douglas, who first made his jurisprudential name as a Yale Law School professor by analyzing bankruptcies for the SEC. Actually the case did not concern a railroad at all. It concerned obscure Los Angeles Lumber Products Company, Ltd. and was chosen as a kind of Schechter case for a New Deal test of Section 776 of the Federal Bankruptcy...
Coordinator of NBC's system of full-time big-shot press correspondents in key capitals and comment from guest correspondents and political bigwigs is capable ex-Worldman Abe Schechter. Correspondent Max Jordan, who scored a notable beat for radio last September on the Munich pact, this time got NBC one of radio's press bylines with his short-waved transmission from Berlin of Hitler's 16 points at a time when transatlantic cables were temporarily shut down...
...Ford can start a legal battle against the Board which he may carry to the Supreme Court if necessary. The company announced at week's end that it would retain able Lawyer Frederick Wood of Manhattan, who contributed to the downfall of NRA as defense counsel in the Schechter ("sick chicken'') case...
...lines have been crossed. For example, it would never do to presume that the United States Steel Corporation is engaged in interstate commerce. Similarly, we could not presume that dealers in live poultry are engaged in interstate commerce. In fact, we cannot conceive how this could even be proved [Schechter (NRA) case]. If Congress, by statute should presume that the products of the bituminous coal industry move in interstate commerce, we should have no hesitation in setting the act aside [Carter Coal Co. (Guffey) case]. . . . These instances . . . involve rights of property; Snatch is arguing for personal liberty. The two must...