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WASHINGTON--The Supreme Court today upheld constitutionality of the Municipal Bankruptcy law which replaced a similar statute invalidated in 1936, and politely rebuked Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace in a decision outlawing livestock sale commission rates at the Kansas City stockyards. The rulings were among more than a score handed down by the Court...
...time being NBC only sniffed, did not bite. But last week Philadelphia newshawks revealed that Manager Allen had caught at least three Philadelphia Orchestra men in the act of reaching for XBC contracts. A six-months-notice clause in their contracts (upheld by American Federation of Musicians' President Joseph N. Weber at a special Manhattan conference) foiled Trombonist Charles Gusikoff and Contrabassist Anton Torello. But prized Horn Player Arthur I. Berv got loose, signed up with NBC. Oboist Tabuteau and Flutist Kincaid, whose Philadelphia salaries are rumored to be in the neighborhood of $300 per week, would...
...Harvard upheld the Negative of the proposition, "Res. that Congress should enact a regional power program embodying the principles of the T. V. A." in encounters with John Marshall College in Jersey City on Sunday evening April 3 and with William and Mary University in Williamsburg on Wednesday, April 6. The John Marshall debate was lost and there was no decision in the William and Mary contest. There was also a half-hour discussion of the "Little T. V. A.'s" question with John Marshall on Sunday afternoon over WMCA and the Inter-city network...
...Francisco the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Securities & Exchange Commission rule that the issuer of stock may not avoid registering it with SEC merely by limiting the offering to company stockholders. The case grew out of an attempt by small, unimportant Sunbeam Gold Mines Co., a Nevada corporation with headquarters in Tacoma. to sell unregistered securities by mail to its stockholders. SEC was pleased because it was the first time the matter had been considered by a court of appeals...
...year's most important case-the test of the constitutionality of the registration requirement of the Public Utility Act of 1935. By a vote of 6-to-1 (sick Justice Cardozo and Freshman Justice Reed not participating; Justice McReynolds, as expected, dissenting) the Court upheld SEC in its test suit against Electric Bond & Share...