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...retreat was from a ponderous myopic sexagenarian lumberman named William Elbert Belcher. For 29 years Mr. Belcher has been modestly engaged in turning the slash pine of Bibb County, Ala. into merchantable lumber. The retreat was also from one of the most respected and uncompromising septuagenarians of the South, Federal Judge William Irwin Grubb of Birmingham, whose decisions are very rarely reversed by higher courts. Last October, the Government brought Lumberman Belcher to trial before Judge Grubb on charges of paying lower wages and working his men longer hours than NRA's lumber code allowed. Defendant Belcher readily admitted...
Dive--Harvard: Bernard F. Merriam, ll '36, Henry K. Fitts '36; Alumni; Thecdore McK. Belcher...
...Birmingham, Ala. last week a Federal Judge ruled that NIRA was unconstitutional. Last August a Federal Grand Jury indicted W. E. Belcher, who owns saw mills at Centerville, Plantersville and other Alabama towns, for paying his men less than 24? an hour, for working them more than 40 hours a week. Mr. Belcher's lawyer filed a demurrer. If Federal Judge William I. Grubb had decided against the defendant, U. S. v. Belcher would have been sidetracked into the District Court of Appeals for trial. But after a conference with lawyers for both sides...
...emitted a mighty belch. There was a sudden flash of flame, a rumbling "poom," a smell of singed hair. The cigaret was projected by the explosion over three rows of seats. "In pain and confusion," declared the Lancet, British medical weekly, in reporting the case of this fiery belcher this month, "he had hurriedly to leave the cinema...
...tentatively accepted are as follows: Cecil M. Arrowsmith '37, C. Henry Baum Jr. '37, Charles N. Belcher '37, Richard B. Cooper 2GB, Donald W. Davis Jr. '37, Ethan A. Dennison '37, Thomas S. Everett '37, Donald W. Fiske '37, Fred P. Glike '37, Lester J. Hershon '35, Edwin A. Hills '37, Gorden S. Hughes '37, Harold E. Jahn '36, John M. Lovejoy '37, Edwin A. Meyer '37, Thomas P. Myles '37, Edwin K. Packard '37, Paul W. Sears '37, Raymond Sobel '37, John L. Stegmaier '37, Joseph G. Sutton Jr. '37, Edward C. Tenney '37, Charles Thorndike...