Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Executioner. England's University of Birmingham conducts the ablest and most consistently pursued research study of the Soviet Union. In its latest report on the Second Five-Year Plan occurs this quiet, profoundly significant comment: "The legal and administrative compulsion to economic activity under penalty of capital and other punishment is so closely associated with the Soviet system of planning that a study of the U. S. S. R. economy at the present time should actually begin with an explanation of the criminal code. . . . The unusual duties which devolve nowadays on the Soviet public prosecutor may be judged from...
...Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 12-The next war will be less destructive and will be waged at a smaller cost than the World War, according to Lieut.-Col. William N. Porter, chemical warfare instructor at Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Ala., army aviation school...
...Director David Lilienthal would be the last to claim that his doings are primarily emergency measures. And last week a Federal Judge in Birmingham, Ala. seriously questioned whether TVA's vast power schemes were really incidental to the development of waterways. If they were not incidental, then they were obviously unconstitutional and the heart of the Tennessee Valley experiment was null & void...
William Irwin Grubb was appointed Federal Judge 25 years ago by William Howard Taft after that fun-loving President received the following telegram from a group of Birmingham lawyers: NORTH ALABAMA IS STARVING FOR JUSTICE STOP FOR GOD'S SAKE GIVE US GRUBB. Now 72, slight, wiry and a Democrat, Judge Grubb runs his courtroom smartly, shames attorneys who waste his time. Born & bred in Cincinnati, he went to Yale with a brother of President Taft. His opinion last week was handed down in denying a TVA motion to dismiss an injunction petition filed by a group of Alabama Power...
College Rhythm (Paramount). Three years ago, a second-rate vaudeville comedian, worried by a cold audience in Birmingham, Ala., acted on an irrational inspiration. He rushed out of the wings, whined at the master of ceremonies: "Wanna buy a duck...