Evening star., 1934-03-07

Although the new deal has won both
cases touching its constitutionality sc
far to reach the Supreme Court-ths
Minnesota mortgage moratorium Law
and the New York milk control statute
other cases that will perhaps ever
more decisively affect the validity OF
the Roosevelt emergency set-up are
on the road to the highest tribunal
One involves curtailment Of produc.
ton under NJ r. A. 1t is the cast
instituted by Texas oil Independents
who successfully fought curtailment OF
production in the lower courts. The
case is being brought to the Supreme
Court by the Government. Litigation
that goes to the roots of the A. A. A
is en- route in connection with price
fixing in milk sheds. including Illinoi.
and territory adjacent to the District
of Columbia. 1t IS doubtful whether
either the oil or milk cases will b<
Supreme Court. The issues at stake
are believed to 60 closer to the con-
stituti0nal roots Of the new deal thar
anything so far passed on.
Among those present when Presi-
dent Roosevelt addressed N. R. A. code
authorities on March were Russian
Ambassador Troyanovsky, Italian Am
baSsador RoSSo and German AmbaS-
sador Luther. BY accident or design.
they sat alongside each other in the
same box. They listened intently
while F. D. r. was emphasizing that
the United States is pursuing 1.-THE
American way" and not communism,
fascism, collectivism or any other
form of dictatorship. The President,
of course, did not mention the Soviet
Union, Italy and Germany, when he
stressed that Uncle Sam has not vio-
lated the constitutional or parliament
tary system, but the respective Wash
ington representatives of Messrs. Sta
lin. Mussolini and Hitler probably did
not miss the point.
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Lawrence Dennis of New York, who
has just described himself as "the Fas-
cist movement" in America, left the
diplomatic service in 1926 after tours
of duty as secretary of legation in
Haiti, Honduras and Nicaragua. For
ty-year-old Mr.. Dennis is a native of
Georgia and was graduated at Har-
ward in 1919, entering the State De-
partment two years later. He resigned
to join the Seligman banking house at
New York. Dennis was a vociferous
critic of the promotion system In the
foreign service and has written Wig
orouSly on Uncle Sans Latin Ameri-
can policy.
Jim Farley's campaign pledge that
women would share generously in
Roosevelt administration plums has
just received fresh vindication with
the appointment of two Ohioans, Miss
Florence E. Allen of Cleveland. to be
a United States circuit judge, and
Mrs. Bernice Pyke, also of Cleveland,
to be collector of customs in that city.
Both are veteran Democratic woman
politicians. Miss Allen, formerly a
county judge in Cleveland. since 1922
has been justice of the Ohio
Supreme Court. Law is her profession,
but music her hobby. She was once
a music lecturer in the New York
City public schools. Mrs. Pyke is
Democratic national committeewoman
for Ohio Her rich crop of prematurely
white hair, surmounting q youthful
face, has made her q striking figure
at national conventions since 1920.
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With the retirement Of M. Ahmet
Muhtar as Turkish Ambassador after
six and half years service here. the
deanship of the Washington diplo-
matte corps passes to the Ambassador
of Great Britain, Sir Ronald Lindsay.
who this month completes his fourth