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Having thus disposed of the unemployment insurance law, Justice Cardozo went on to the old-age annuity section. This was an appeal by the Government from a lower court decision in favor of Stockholder George P. Davis who sued Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston to restrain it from paying old age pension taxes on its payrolls. This time Justice Cardozo carried seven members of the court with him in approving the law, leaving Justices Butler and McReynolds to dissent. Finally Justice Stone read a decision upholding (5 to 4) Alabama's unemployment insurance law passed to conform...
Message from Edison...
...listening to the Edwin C. Hill program, Sunday evening, March 28, I discovered Thomas A. Edison had written a ten word message which only one person has access to. Believing firmly I have received this message clearly, the time has come to show the world that it is not impossible to hear from the beyond. But I am at a loss to discover the name of the one having this message. Will you kindly communicate with me at your earliest convenience, believing me to be ever grateful, and sincere in my desire to relay this message to those most interested...
...Mentalist" Joseph Dunninger, who can be reached through Frances Rockefeller King of the NBC's Artists' Bureau at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, has under lock & key messages left with him not only by Edison, but by Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini, who said they would try to communicate them to the living after they died. Anyone who receives the message through spiritualistic communication which tallies with the one Edison left can win $10,000 from Mr. Dunninger and the Universal Council for Psychic Research, of which he is chairman...
...hawky face intent upon SEC's hardboiled young lawyers, 63-year-old Mr. Williams affably admitted las't week that he had "influence on the management" of North American Co., North American Light & Power, Pacific Gas & Electric, Northern Natural Gas, Detroit Edison, United Light & Power, American Water Works. After 1929 the astringent years which wiped out many a man of wealth merely shrank Mr. Williams' fortune from fabulous to big. He retained his 400-ft. yacht, the Warrior; his houses, his leisure for travels almost as continuous as those of his wife, his interest in oceanography which...