Experimenting with economic cures
Key cases: Blaisdell v. Home Building & Loan Ass’n – Minnesota, 1933 (249 N.W. 334), affirmed, 290 U.S. 398 (1933); Des Moines Joint Stock Land Bank v. Nordholm – Iowa, 1934 (253 N.W. 701); Town of Cheney’s Grove v. Van Scoyoc – Illinois, 1934 (191 N.E. 289); Fisher v. Harpold – Ohio, 1937 (34 N.E.2d 476)
| Iowa farm, 1930s (Arthur Rothstein, Farm Security Administration - courtesy Library of Congress) “Our Legislature acted cautiously and probably went as far as they could. In my judgment this statute is not a violation but a vindication of constitutional government.” -Justice Samuel Wilson, in Blaisdell “[Moratorium laws] destroyed public credit and
confidence between man and man, injured the morals of the people, and in many
instances insured and aggravated the ruin of the unfortunate debtors for whose
temporary relief they were brought forward.” - Justice John Kintzinger (dissenting), in Nordholm |
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