The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to New Books About Business

THERE has probably never been a time when practical men of affairs watched the proceedings and scanned the decisions of the Supreme Court with such eager interest, even anxiety, as now. The functions of the Court, its rôle under our Constitution, the ‘nine old men’ who compose it, the quality of their minds and thought processes — all have become matters of immediate and pressing concern to a nation whose economic life has been touched at a thousand points by the experimental legislation of the New Deal.