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...Supreme Court attacking the Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. On behalf of the U. S. Government, Messrs. Homer Cummings, Robert Jackson, Thomas Corcoran and Ben Cohen simultaneously filed a brief which asserted, among other things, that if Congress has the right to curb white slavery and bootleg liquor it "certainly is not without power to curb financial chicanery and abuses which have brought ruin to millions." Thus, after over two years of catch-as-catch-can in the lower courts, did the utility industry and the Government finally come to the mat before the nation's top tribunal...
...Bootlegging. In Philadelphia & Reading's petition under the Bankruptcy Act it cited the loss by 'legging of 4,000,000 tons annually. But this highly publicized illicit trade is no longer what it was. Several States have legislated against bootleg coal, leaving Philadelphia almost the sole market; surface outcrops suitable for bootleg mining are approaching exhaustion. Bootlegging never accounted for more than 8% of the total anthracite output, probably employed only 20,000 men at its peak. Last week the Commission guessed that it now employs...
...correct these shortcomings, to require all nurses to have some sort of license according to their training, skill and experience. Backed by many interested professionals and public-spirited citizens, and by the New York State Nurses Association, the Todd campaign got under way to a fanfare of agitation about "bootleg nurses." As horrible examples, the campaign literature cited: 1) a nurse who tried to feed a chop, two vegetables and a piece of pie to a child with a temperature of 104.5°; 2) a nurse who gave baths, accompanied by vigorous twisting and mauling, to a man with...
Annoyed if not perplexed is Pennsylvania's Governor George Earle by bootleg coal mining, which began about five years ago in the depth of Depression and is now a $30,000,000-a-year industry based squarely on theft but supporting a sizable chunk of his State's population in a manner to which it has become thoroughly accustomed. The coal' leggers rumble ominously about "human rights." After a personal visit to the bootleg fields last year, Governor Earle appointed a five-man Anthracite Commission to find an answer...
...know what can happen." Next day Father Divine was "tired." Over him hung not only the assault charge, which he and other Harlemites seemed to think would be difficult to make stick, but also charges against other members of his cult: that his coal truck drivers were dealing in bootleg coal; that a 13-year-old was being overworked in a Divine restaurant...