Word: macke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keen, mellow and eminent among Federal jurists is 70-year-old Julian William Mack, who sits on the U. S. Circuit Court in New York. A realistic Zionist, Judge Mack overcame his detestation of titular honors last summer to accept honorary presidency of the First World Jewish Congress in Geneva. Devoted to the sanity of the law, he has shown a liberalism no less profound, if less spectacular than that of his old friend, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. His decision in the famed anti-trust case against the Sugar Institute in 1934 stands as a weighty legal precedent...
...utility counsel who came primed, after nearly a year of preparation, to convince Judge Mack that the Public Utility Act was unconstitutional, or at least to obtain a ruling on that point in order to appeal it, SEC's smart Attorney Robert Houghwout Jackson immediately opened a tricky gambit. He suggested that since Electric Bond & Share had never registered with SEC as the Utility Act required, the point at issue was not the constitutionality of the Act as a whole but that of its registration provisions. Electric Bond & Share, argued Attorney Jackson, was on an illegal spot. It could...
...electricity distributed by Bond & Share's multitudinous subsidiaries were conducted across State lines. He mentioned the inability of State power commissions to deal with utilities operating within their territories but not legally subject to their jurisdiction. Said he, with a nod to Judge Mack's known sentiments on monopoly...
...Died. Mack Garner, 36, one of four famed jockey brothers (others: Guy, Lambert, Wayne ["Skeets"]), rider of the 1934 Kentucky Derby winner Cavalcade; of a heart attack, after riding in four races and bringing in one winner at River Downs (formerly Coney Island) ; in Covington, Ky. In 22 years he rode more than 2,000 winners, earned $2,425,320 for the owners of his mounts...
Died, Alfred Joseph Brosseau, president since 1917 of Mack Trucks, Inc.; after long illness; in Manhattan...