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decision. This attempt to differentiate gives to me a clue to what we can get away with.” Of course, Wyzanski was conferring with everybody around the town on the legal side of this. However, I was concerned more with how we were going to go at this business of introducing legislation that would put a ceiling over hours and a floor under wages, as the President later said.

However, in the same term, the early part of the next year, the court turned the government down on the Triple-A. But the turndown on Triple-A was largely with regard to the procedures used. That decision was not merely just a conservative court turning down the government. There were good reasons for it. The principal lesson that I got out of it was that the procedure used by the AAA in doing what it did was not fair, just administrative law. It was unfair and the public interest was not conserved. I do believe that's true. I read the decision very carefully. I read the case very carefully. I read it with Wyzanski. I came to the same conclusion, that unless the court had been rabid to support it, certainly they would not have sustained the AAA, because of the method which they had used, and the fact that they had not advertised their hearings, sometimes had adopted a rule without allowing those to





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