Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate will have a new Farmer-Laborite in the person of Elmer A. Benson, appointed by Minnesota's Governor Olson to succeed the late Senator Schall (see col. 1). But in many ways the most interesting new face in the 74th Congress will be that of Alabama's Representative William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead, who has sat in the House for 18 years. A year ago. on the day before Congress met, he was chosen Floor Leader of one of the biggest Democratic majorities in House history (TIME, Jan. 14). Same day he went...
...attorney for 14 minority stockholders of Alabama Power Co. suing to prevent the company from selling transmission lines to or buying power from Tennessee Valley Authority. Lawyer Johnston uprose to argue what was expected to be a decisive test of TVA's constitutionality. Puffed by this weighty circumstance, he launched into an eloquent preamble, was just warming into his oratorical stride when Chief Justice Hughes interrupted to inquire: "Would you mind telling us what this suit is, who brought...
...fairest judges, one of the ablest authorities on law in the South. Judge Grubb propounded a series of decisions to the grave disadvantage of NRA and TVA. Last week his successor was appointed: David J. Davis, great & good friend and onetime law partner of Alabama's Senator Hugo La Fayette Black. Said the Birmingham bar when he was proposed for the job: "Courteous . . . considerate . . . efficient." As a faithful follower of New Dealer Black, Judge Davis was counted on to propound few decisions embarrassing to the New Deal...
Quarterback-Smith (Alabama...
...think we have every reason to be moderately satisfied with the results."One result was that, on Repeal's second birthday, a citizen could buy himself a drink of hard liquor across a bar in 28 States and the District of Columbia. Only one State is wholly dry-Alabama. The Federal Government had during the past fiscal year taken in $411,000,000 in liquor taxes. The States had collected many millions more. Consumption was only 70% of the 1917 level, and while 324 cities reported 23,683 arrests for drunken driving last year, the total was below...