...stabilize the cost of living, including the price of all farm commodities," and stated further, "hi the event that the Congress should fail to act, and...shall accept the responsibility, and I will act." The purpose of. the legislation, he said, "should be to hold farm prices at parity, or at the levels...

...economic chaos. "As I said hi my message to the Congress : " 'In the event that the Congress shall fail to act, and act adequately I shall accept the responsibility, and I will act.' "The President has the powers, under the Constitution and under congressional acts, to take measures...

...economic chaos. "As I said in my message to the Congress : " 'In the event that the Congress shall fail to act, and act adequately I shall accept the responsibility, and I will act.' "The President has the powers, under the Constitution and under congressional acts, to take measures...

...of the country to see to it that the war effort is no longer imperiled by threat of economic chaos. In the event that the Congress should fail to act,...wages can and will be stabilized also. This I will do. ****** When the war is won, the powers under which I act automatically revert to the people— to whom...

...said bluntly: 'I ask the Congress to take this action by the first of October ... In the event that Congress should fail to act, and act adequately, I shall accept the responsibility, and / will act.'39 Congress passed the necessary legislation before the time limit set. :" Can Representative...

...said bluntly: 'I ask the Congress to take this action by the first of October ... In the event that Congress should fail to act, and act adequately, I shall accept the responsibility, and / will act.'3* Congress passed the necessary legislation before the time limit set. Roosevelt's contemplated...

...authority of Congress if it does not delegate its power, allowed FDR to say that, "In the event that Congress should fail to act, and act adequately. I...shall accept the responsibility, and I •will act * * * out of the inescapable responsibility to the people of this country." I believe that, indeed....

...the Emergency Price Control Act as inflationary. He threatened the Congress bluntly when he declared: In the event that the Congress should fail to act,...responsibility, and I will act. At the same time that fair prices are stabilized, wages can and will be stabilized also. This I will do. parliamentary financing...

...President Franklin D. Roosevelt expressed himself perhaps even more strongly along the same lines: "In the event that the Congress should fail to act,...I shall accept the responsibility, and I will act. • **•••• "The President has the powers, under the Constitution and under congressional acts,...

...misinterpreting" existing legislation as necessary to accomplish his purpose, and threatening on one occasion that "in the event that the Congress should fail to act, and act adequately, I shall accept th« responsibility, and I will act."7 Justice Jackson, in dissenting froir the majority opinion of...