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...personal property, unclaimed savings deposits, dividends, and securities. Most laymen and many lawyers think of escheat only when persons die without wills and heirs. Last week smart lawyers all over the U. S. eyed with admiration a lawsuit filed in the Dauphin County Court at Harrisburg to compel the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to collect by escheat some 15 millions tucked away in the treasuries of Pennsylvania's 150 biggest corporations. If the suit succeeds, its two principal sponsors, a pair of young Philadelphia lawyers named Michael Edelman and Abram Jere Creskoff stand to collect...
...Association. And practical enough for a Rochester shoe manufacturer, Armstrong & Co.. to spend $150,000 on: 1) support of Dr. Schwartz's gait laboratory; 2) maintenance of an extension gait laboratory in its own factory; 3) manufacture of what Dr. Schwartz calls "balance-in-motion" shoes which "compel the wearer to walk naturally." When properly fitted, "they correct flat feet, obliterate bunions and callouses, alleviate sacroiliac pain, and actually, in certain cases, cure mental derangements by removing strains from the muscles and tendons of locomotion...
...colleague still objected to having it tacked to the Guffey Bill. Denying assertions that a vote against the amendment would be a tacit endorsement of the Sit-Down. Senator Minton cried: "I'm willing to meet this issue but I am unwilling to have the textile industry compel me to cast a vote that might be construed as the Senators suggest...
Seeking Divorce. Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo of Mississippi; from Linda R. Gaddy Bilbo, who fortnight ago sued to compel payment of her $100-a-month separate maintenance; at Poplarville, Miss. Grounds: "cruel and inhuman treatment...
What the Court of Appeals had to do was to get in step with the U. S. Supreme Court by explaining its Doubleday, Doran-Macy decision. Wrote Chief Justice Frederick E. Crane: "[When] the publisher sought ... to compel Macy to sell the books at the price it had fixed with another Doubleday corporation . . . we thought this to be a clear case of unauthorized restriction upon the disposition of one's own property and unconstitutional within former decisions of the United States Supreme Court. That court has [now] taken a different view ... so we feel it to be our duty...