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...Alabama," firmly declared Governor Bibb Graves last week, "is going to observe the supreme law of America...
...Court for the second time reversed the State court's conviction on the ground that Negroes had been "systematically excluded" from the jury roll. Alabamans and the Press of the entire South took that decision with a stunned and apprehensive silence. It was at that critical point that Bibb Graves spoke up. Enclosing a copy of the Supreme Court's reversal, he wrote to every judge in the State...
...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...
Alabama's Bibb Graves got a law degree at Yale in 1896, but he has remained a man of the people. When he was Governor of Alabama from 1927 to 1931 he proposed installing public radio sets in every town so that Alabamans could hear music. He favors good old-fashioned political oratory and haberdashery, and by their means he induced Alabama to favor him with the first re-election given any of its Governors in 33 years. He did it by promising a referendum on State Repeal, promising tax exemption on homesteads up to $3,500 value, promising...
...York State Senator, a Republican but an old friend; Eugene R. Black, onetime Governor of the Federal Reserve (see p. 53); Chairman Frank McNinch and Vice Chairman Basil Manly of the Federal Power Commission; David Lilienthal of TVA; Morris L. Cooke of the National Resources Board; Governors-elect Bibb Graves of Alabama and Olin D. Johnston of South Carolina; Governors Talmadge of Georgia and Sholtz of Florida; Senators Robinson of Arkansas and Harrison of Mississippi, who after a four-hour conference jointly declared against the Bonus, for a balanced "normal" budget, with no new taxes next year; President Rudolf Hecht...