Unemployment in the United States: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Seventy-first Congress, Second Session on S. 3059, 3060, H.R. 8374, 8655, 9560, 11414, 12550, and 12551. Serial 11, June 11 and 12, 1930

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Seite 10 - ... shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of its proportional contribution thereto.
Seite 180 - An act to provide for. the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes," approved June 6, 1933 (48 Stat.
Seite 17 - United States,' when used in a geographical sense, includes the several States and Territories, the insular possessions of the United States (including the Philippine Islands), the Canal Zone, and the District of Columbia. "(b) The term 'person' includes a partnership, company, association, or corporation, as well as a natural person.
Seite 27 - to foster, promote and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Seite 155 - We have no power per se to review and annul acts of Congress on the ground that they are unconstitutional. That question may be considered only when the justification for some direct injury suffered or threatened, presenting a justiciable issue, is made to rest upon such an act.
Seite 159 - In our view the necessary effect of this act is, by means of a prohibition against the movement in interstate commerce of ordinary commercial commodities, to regulate the hours of labor of children in factories and mines within the States, a purely state authority.
Seite 8 - State and local officers and employees as he may find necessary, to prescribe their authorities, duties, responsibilities, and tenure, and, without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, to fix the compensation of any officers and employees so appointed.
Seite 159 - This amendment, which was seemingly adopted with prescience of just such contention as the present, disclosed the widespread fear that the National Government might, under the pressure of a supposed general welfare, attempt to exercise powers which had not been granted.
Seite 159 - The' good sought in unconstitutional legislation is an insidious feature because it leads citizens and legislators of good purpose to promote it without thought of the serious breach it will make in the ark of our covenant, or the harm which will come from breaking down recognized standards.
Seite 12 - ... such expenditures (including expenditures for personal services and rent at the seat of government and elsewhere, for law books...

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