Social Security Act Upheld by Supreme Court Majority
The Social Security Act is declared constitutional by a large majority with unemployment insurance upheld by five justices and old age pensions approved by all but two. Justice Cardozo wrote both majorities on his 67th birthday while administration leaders praise the ruling as broad welfare power. The decision also sustains state unemployment acts and limits on injunctions in labor disputes.
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Supreme Court
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Wisconsin
Washington
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Brandeis
Doroegram
Joseph Robinson
Senate
United States
Robinson
High Court
Ellender bill aims to curb foreign bond sales in US markets
The Ellender plan would add a securities act provision prohibiting sales of foreign government bonds in the United States unless net proceeds equal par value, with a two percent service charge. Underwriters’ profits would shrink, reducing the price spread and forcing investors to reassess bond values.
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J.P. Morgan ‘and Company
United States
Securities and Exchange Commission
House
Senate
Allen J. Ellender
Louisiana
Securities Commission
Ellender
Commission
Shield of Protection and the Milligan Supreme Court ruling
The Milligan case centers on a civilian charged with disloyalty who was tried by a military commission despite civil courts being open. The Supreme Court voided the death sentence, reaffirming the right to trial by jury and warning that military trials for civilians violate the Constitution.
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Robert Merrill
Eer
The
United States
Supreme Court of the
Lambdin P. Milligan
Supreme Court of the United States
Milligan
Indiana
Indianapolis
Supreme Court
Washington
Western Newspaper Union
Roosevelt urges new wage and hour law for interstate workers
President Roosevelt asks Congress to enact a wage and hour measure for interstate industries, including a five member administrative board and advisory industry boards. Identical bills by Senate and House labor leaders move quickly after White House conferences.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Hugo “L. Black
Senate Labor Committee
William R. Connery
House Labor Committee
White House
John L. Lewis
American Federation of Labor
Ue Neyrovide
Arctic Air Base Near North Pole Planned by Soviet Union
Soviet authorities announce a plan to establish a regular air link with the United States via the Arctic Ocean. An air base on drifting ice near the North Pole will host four scientists for a year with radio contact to the world. The floating ice field is named Comrade Stalin's Land.
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Russia
United States
Arctic Ocean
North Pole
Pole
Stalin
Man 127 Weds Wife for Seventh Time in Dardanelles
Hassan, a peasant near Bigha in the Dardanelles Straits, marries for the seventh time on his 127th birthday. His 37-year-old bride accompanies him as he proclaims that a man is never too old to marry. He attributes his vitality to perfect health good appetite and a new set of natural teeth begun ten years ago.
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Hassan
Bigha
Dardanelles Straits
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