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...Guarantee that employers will not be prosecuted if they follow the Administrator's rulings and interpretations, pending court decisions on moot points. Employers now take Elmer Andrews' advice at their risk, chancing heavy damages, fines up to $10,000, even six months in jail if the courts disagree with the Administrator on what the law means...
...that this egg matter has been disposed of. I wish information on another line which perhaps some of your readers can give: When I was a kid a long time since, "Who struck Billy Patterson?" was a moot question then much discussed. I think there was a Congressional investigation, but as I was out of the U. S. A. for a number of years I never heard how it was settled. Now I do not care to know why he was struck or where he was struck. BUT WHO STRUCK HIM. It's important...
...moot question among physicians is the physiological effect of smoking. Only definitely established fact is that cigarets do little harm to a strong, healthy heart. Last December, Dr. Harry Louis Segal of Rochester, N.Y., who teaches in the University of Rochester's medical school, announced the results of a series of careful experiments on cigarets and fatigue. Even minuscule amounts of nicotine, he said, whether smoked in cigarets or injected directly into the veins, cause fatigue in many persons...
These clubs are the survivors of a two-year moot-court competition, which about 65 clubs originally entered during the students' first year at the school. Winners of this week's arguments will meet in January for the finals of the Ames Competition...
...needed utility expansion which had been held up because of the industry's fear of what the Government next might do to it or Wall Street. Whether this expansion is still needed now that power sales have been dwindling for six months is moot, but last week Jesse Jones declared that RFC would be glad to give utilities money for expansion. Said he: "We have heard a lot of talk about the expanding they could do if they got the right kind of money. We have the money and we will lend it to them right. Not for refinancing...