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...given his paycheck in St. Louis, where the team was playing, told to go home to his wife and child. Disconsolate at this dismissal, he started drinking on the way, was ejected from an American Airliner at Detroit. There he hired Pilot William Joseph Mulqueeny and his friend Irwin Davis, a professional parachute-jumper, to fly him to Buffalo. At 10 p. m., they took off in a small cabin monoplane which once belonged to Torchsinger Libby Holman...
...Samuel, Viscount Willingdon the present Viceroy of India, and onetime Viceroy Lord Irwin (now Viscount Halifax) are supposed to feel that they will go down in history as "India's Abraham Lincolns," super-emancipators who have laid a basis for setting 350,000,000 Indians free under the new Constitution some generations hence...
...general 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...
...Legal authorization for acts that Federal Judge W'illiam Irwin ("Unconstitutional") Grubb of Alabama had declared illegal under the original...
...potent 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...