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Attending the conference were Attorney General Homer S. Cummings; Donald R. Richberg, chairman of the NRA; and Solicitor General Stanley Reed...
What Justice McReynolds, leader of the four-man conservative wing, wanted to know about was by what empiricism had the New Deal arrived at "fair trade" and labor "standards." Solicitor General Stanley Reed, making his maiden appearance as such before the Court, explained: "The only standard is what industry considers unfair, plus the judgment of the President as to whether they are fair trade provisions." Next day Counsel Richberg took over the ordeal, added that fair trade standards were established in accordance with "the common law" and with those standards which the industries "recognized before codes were adopted...
Only friends call as a rule and the consensus of undergraduate opinion finds it easier to hang up on a solicitor than to ease him out the door after a lengthy harangue. In Harvard, tradesmen soon became tired of wasting their time and money telephoning students...
...last week Stanley Forman Reed was sworn in as Solicitor General of the U. S. Taking that oath cost him $208 a month because he gave up a $12.500 job as general counsel of RFC to take the $10,000 Solicitorship General. But public advancement meant more than money to Mr. Reed, who is the husband of the Registrar General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and in his own right a country squire and cattle breeder at home in Maysville, Ky. First called to Washington by President Hoover as counsel to the late Farm Board at $25.000 salary...
...Becoming Solicitor General put Stanley Reed in the first line of the New Deal's legal defense at a critical moment. The Solicitor General's job is to decide what cases should be appealed to the Supreme Court and to represent the Government in person before that august bench. Solicitor General J. Crawford Biggs re-signed last month after many New Dealers had decided that he was not making the best of the Administration's defense (TIME. March 25). Mr. Reed, taking office, understood well enough that he was expected to do better. But he was hardly...