Word: testing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago the Roosevelt Administration ducked its first opportunity for a clean-cut test of NRA's constitutionality when at the Government's request the Supreme Court dismissed the case against Lumberman William Elbert Belcher, who had deliberately refused to obey the Lumber Code (TIME, April 8). This procedure practically demoralized NRA's personnel, precipitated a nation-wide epidemic of petty code violations and put the Government in the equivocal position of asking for an extension of the NIRA without daring to risk a showdown on the Act's basic validity. To hush critical cries...
Same day at nearby Flint, another young stunter prepared to emulate Sohn. He was Floyd Davis, 22, parachutist and sailplane enthusiast. A pilot at 16, Davis had 230 hours flying time in 1929 when airport officials had him grounded for stunting. Just reinstated, he was now anxious to test a pair of homemade wings he had spent five months constructing...
...working his men longer hours than NRA's lumber code allowed. Defendant Belcher readily admitted the facts but argued that the Recovery Act as applied to him was unconstitutional for 61 different reasons. Judge Grubb upheld him (TIME, Nov. 12). Government attorneys were delighted; here was a magnificent test case-no argument about facts, simply a question of constitutionality. Appeal was speeded to the Supreme Court. The reason for the Government's haste was explained by Assistant Attorney General Harold M. Stephens...
Last week, in ample time for the regular summer season of infantile paralysis, Dr. Maurice Brodie of Manhattan, one of the vaccine inventors, disclosed a simple, speedy test of a child's susceptibility to the disease. A mouse and a special filtrate, which any careful bacteriologist can make with a few mice and some potent infantile paralysis virus, are all a doctor needs...
...test a little of the child's blood serum is injected into a healthy mouse. Then the mouse receives a little of Dr. Brodie's infected filtrate. If the child is immune, nothing will happen to the mouse. But, wrote Dr. Brodie in Science last week, if the child is susceptible to infantile paralysis, after two days "the clinical picture in the mouse is quite acute. It begins with irritability, jumpiness, ruffled hair and goes on to ataxia [dragging] of the hind legs, humped back, convulsions, circular movements, twisting of the head and sometimes ptosis [drooping...