Word: social
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last time this session the Supreme Court (which adjourns for the season June 1) this week pronounced the fate of a major New Deal law. Expecting a decision on the Social Security Act, Senators (among them Court Candidate Joseph T. Robinson), members of the Social Security Board and Government attorneys dotted the crowd in the court room. The political consequences of the decision would affect not only the Social Security program but the President's Court program. To many an ardent New Dealer there would have been a very silvery lining in a decision finding this New Deal...
...Statute does not call for a surrender by the States of powers essential to their quasi-sovereign existence. . . . The Social Security Act is an attempt to find a method by which all these [Federal or State] public agencies may work together to a common...
...court with him in approving the law, leaving Justices Butler and McReynolds to dissent. Finally Justice Stone read a decision upholding (5 to 4) Alabama's unemployment insurance law passed to conform to the Federal law. The Court having thus made a clean sweep of legal attacks on Social Security, Justice Cardozo went home to celebrate the day, his 67th birthday...
...women and of the National Labor Relations Act. Associate Justice Roberts and Chief Justice Hughes, who made those decisions by aligning themselves with the Court's liberals, were credited with damping the enthusiasm of labor for a Court change. When the Court last week upheld the Social Security Act (see p. 16), it simply added one more reason for believing such a change unnecessary...
...broken up by a mob of vigilantes, a Negro named Frank Weems had been beaten to death. Within a few days the Rev. Claude Williams, asked by the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union to preach Weems's funeral sermon, left Memphis accompanied by Willie Sue Blagden, Memphis social worker, to investigate Weems's death and gather material for his obituary. At Earle, they were seized by vigilantes. Parson Williams was given 14 thumping whacks with a mule's belly strap. Then Willie Sue Blagden got four solid clouts. Governor Futrell and the local sheriff protested that...