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...GRUBB...
Deflated, Lawyer Johnston tried a new tack, began telling the Court how the late Federal District Judge William I. Grubb had upheld his side of the case on its first hearing. This time Mr. Justice McReynolds broke in: "It would help if you would tell who brought the suit...
...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...
...politics, such appointments are normal. Last week Senators Black and Bankhead urged the President to appoint David J. Davis to succeed the late Judge William Irwin Grubb of Alabama who blasted NRA and TVA with adverse decisions. Prime recommendation that Senator Black gave for Mr. Davis was that he is "a strong supporter of the present Administration...
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...