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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...
...Judge Grubb did not declare TVA unconstitutional but he did raise a major constitutional question which first he and later the Supreme Court will have to answer. Citing the enumerated powers of Congress he declared: "If the program of the Tennessee Valley Authority involves only the salvaging of excess or unused electric power, produced in aid of its operations in improving the navigation of the Tennessee River, or in relation to its operations at the Wilson Dam, or the Nitrate plants, there located for the National defense, or for the benefit of lands owned by it in the government reservations...
Both sides hailed this Grubb opinion as a victory. Lowly utility shares rallied briskly on the stockmarket. Director Lilienlhal rejoiced: "It is upon this very basis that the Authority has been administering the law as it pertains to power." Donald Richbcrg jeered: "The opinion of Judge Grubb must be a sad blow to the highly-paid lawyers recently employed by the Edison Electric Institute to demonstrate that the entire grant of power to the TVA was unconstitutional...
...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, he put it on the main line to the Supreme Court by handing down an unwritten decision granting the demurrer...
Hard on the heels of the Big Board in trying to build up a businessman's counterattack against the Exchange Bill was the New York Curb, second largest exchange in the U. S. Able young President E. Burd Grubb, elected only last week, lost no time in emulating President Whitney's methods. President Michael J. O'Brien of the Chicago Stock Exchange, third largest in the U. S., did the same thing.* To businessmen throughout the land who thought that the proposed legislation was no concern of theirs, lawyers, brokers, bankers and dealers preached the same simple...