Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late U. S. District Judge William I. Grubb of Birmingham, Ala. was regarded by lawyers who practiced before him as one of the 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...
...Birmingham, when Mrs. Ernestine Meeks refused probation for a liquor law violation and began to serve a 60-day jail term, her husband, sometime subpoena server, crowed: "There has been a lot of talk about us having a drag. I want people to know we serve our time in jail like other respectable people...
...information from a questioner. In addition it was found that scopolamine, like actual hypnosis, might dredge up forgotten facts from the unconscious. Police hesitated to use the stuff because it was fatal if mishandled and because evidence obtained by means of it was not directly admissible in court. In Birmingham, Ala., however, an alert district attorney cornered a gang of ax murderers by running down leads gained from scopolamine confessions. In Kansas City, an alert detective chief named Thomas Higgins heard about the Birmingham successes. Last fortnight he thanked his stars that he had. One morning Higgins' men were...
Baldwin Bandwagon. In a last minute reverse and spurt to climb on the Baldwin Bandwagon, peppery Lieut. Colonel Leopold Stennet Amery, who a few days before had flayed the Prime Minister for "playing with fire" in his threat of sanctions at Geneva, rushed off to his Conservative constituency at Birmingham and went the whole hog in fulsome praise of portly Squire Baldwin whose hobby is raising pigs. All last year Colonel Amery and Mr. Churchill fought the Prime Minister from within his Party on the India Bill. "Winnie" leaped for the band wagon in plenty of time (TIME, Sept...
Died. William Irwin Grubb, 73, Judge of the Northern District of Alabama since 1909; suddenly, of a heart attack; in Birmingham. A self-styled Democrat, he was a comfort to the Republican Administrations of the 1920's by his severity with dry law violators, grew famed when he turned a cold judicial eye on the New Deal, pronounced NRA unconstitutional (TIME, Nov. 12, 1934), ruled TVA power sales illegal (TIME...