Trump v. Slaughter · ¶54
Just nine years after Myers, we handed down Humphrey’s Executor, 295 U. S. 602. The case arose out of President Roosevelt’s decision to fire one of President Hoover’s appointees to the Federal Trade Commission, William Humphrey, two years into Humphrey’s seven-year term. Humphrey lauded Hoover “as the foremost figure of the world,” a man who fought back against “the demagogue, the fanatic, the reformer, and the fool.” Washington, D. C., Evening Star, Mar. 11, 1932, p. D11, col. 8. On the Commission, Humphrey sought to do the same. He often spoke to the press, and described the FTC variously as “a publicity bureau” used “to spread Socialistic propaganda,” Boston Globe, Dec. 14, 1926, p. 5, cols. 3–4, a “bureaucracy gone insane,” N. Y. Times, Feb. 3, 1929, p. 19, col. 1, and “an instrument of oppression and disturbance and injury,” Orlando Evening Star, Jan. 7, 1931, p. 3, col. 3.…Read in context ›
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