Word: grubbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...welfare of the people." In Washington, PWAdministrator Ickes was undecided about taking the case to the Supreme Court. But he proposed to push his program as best he could by direct purchase, by getting states & cities to condemn desired land. TVA. Famed has grown Federal District Judge William Irwin Grubb of Alabama for his rulings against the New Deal. Last winter, while expressly avoiding an opinion on TVA's constitutionality, he declared its chief activity of power-selling illegal, forbade...
...Alabama towns to buy its power. Last week in New Orleans the Fifth Federal Circuit Court handed Judge Grubb his first New Deal reversal, went out of its way to declare specifically that TVA was constitutional. The war and commerce clauses of the Constitution empower the Government to build dams for purposes of improving navigation, supplying needs of national defense. Power created by the dams is Government property and may, ruled the Court, be disposed of as freely as any other Government property. In four words the Court disposed of the argument that TVA does not aim at legitimate surplus...
...Legal authorization for acts that Federal Judge W'illiam Irwin ("Unconstitutional") Grubb of Alabama had declared illegal under the original...
...processors had filed suits for recovery of taxes paid or for injunctions against collection of taxes due. With some $10,000,000 in taxes already involved, new suits were piling up at the rate of about five per day. Several Federal judges, notably Alabama's famed William Irwin ("Unconstitutional") Grubb, had granted the taxpayers' petitions...
...famed Corning Glass Co. cast the telescope's most important part-a 5,000-lb. mirror of Pyrex glass. The disk was 74 in. across, a foot thick. After cooling for three months, it was shipped across the Atlantic to Newcastle-on-Tyne, where Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons & Co., spent a year and a half making a polished concave surface true to the ideal paraboloid curve within two-millionths of an inch. Then it traveled back to the new observatory, where it was laboriously removed from its elaborate packing case, coated with silver, mersed into place at the bottom...