Johns Hopkins University v. Board of County Commissioners

In 1941 the Government of the United States was greatly concerned with the condition of world affairs and of the probability that it might be drawn into the vortex of a world war. Its weapons of defense were greatly depleted, some being old and antiquated, those which were modern and up-to-date existed only to a limited extent, and scientific agencies needed in matters of research to keep pace with modern implements of war were in great demand. In that year the President of the United States, by Administrative Order, May 25, 1940, created the office of Emergency Management in the Executive…