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...judgment on the question of whether much of the New Deal is legal or illegal. The case arose over a bale of cotton numbered 407784. One night a year ago at Clarksdale in Coahoma County, Miss., Fred Hastings allegedly asked Jed B. Earner, a Negro helper, to steal cotton from the warehouse of Federal Compress & Warehouse Co. Black Jed quietly rolled three bales of cotton, one of them No. 407784, out of the warehouse. He confessed that for these services he received...
...Would it be a Federal crime," asked one, "to steal a cow from a licensed stockyard...
...Aren't you contending that the Government could make it a Federal crime to steal a bale of cotton off a farmer's wagon, because the cotton will eventually go into interstate commerce?" demanded Justice McReynolds...
Said Mr. Keenan: "The Government is not trying to police the morals of Mississippi residents. As far as the Warehouse Act is concerned the Government does not care how much they steal from one another in Mississippi as long as they keep their hands off cotton in bonded Federal warehouses. When they don't, it is a burden on interstate commerce...
...anything like what lines the campaign will take. . . . There'll be less spellbinding, less soap-box stuff. . . . All the old issues have fallen down. Prohibition is out of the way, thank heavens. Tariff has simmered down to a compromise. . . . States' rights-the Republicans are trying to steal our clothes on that issue...