Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present plan, practically speaking, proposes to eliminate injunctions against the T.V.A., even though Alabama Power Co. stockholders, for example, realize that T.V.A. invasion of the power field will mean virtual sequestration of their property. At present it is usually too expensive for small groups of vitally interested individuals to engage in a long legal battle with the government. To make it practically impossible, several of our "public servants" are vigorously pushing a bill to require the posting of bonds. The small man would thus have to mortgage everything he had to file a bond with astronomical figures...
...attorney remarked that he thought the Government had the right to utilize all the resources of a river, including the disposition of power created thereby. "That would be a benevolent dictatorship," shot back Judge Grubb, who simultaneously enjoined 14 Alabama communities from using PWA funds for municipal power systems on the ground that one arm of the Government (PWA) was, in effect, aiding & abetting another arm (TVA) in an illegal...
...opinion of Federal Judge William Irwin Grubb of Alabama, the Government has no right to engage in the power business except to dispose of a surplus incidental to the exercise of some other Constitutional function. So said the wiry little septuagenarian jurist last autumn during the legal preliminaries of an injunction suit to restrain the Tennessee Valley Authority from buying private Alabama power properties (TIME...
...asked by the courts, the legislatures, and individuals. It is a healthy sign of a nation's returning to a way of rational thinking, devoid of the supercharged emotionalism and propaganda that has characterized the past few years. On Friday, Judge Grubb, of the U.S. District Court in Birmingham, Alabama, termed the sale of power by the T.V.A. illegal. Moreover, he granted a permanent injunction which will prevent 14 cities from borrowing P.W.A. funds "to provide a market for T.V.A. power...
Representative John McDuffie of Alabama, who once came within an ace of being House Speaker, fought, bled and nearly died politically putting through President Roosevelt's 1933 Economy Bill. Last week the President rewarded him with a nomination to be a Federal Judge in the Southern District of Alabama...