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...opinion of Federal Judge William Irwin Grubb of Alabama, the Government has no right to engage in the power business except to dispose of a surplus incidental to the exercise of some other Constitutional function. So said the wiry little septuagenarian jurist last autumn during the legal preliminaries of an injunction suit to restrain the Tennessee Valley Authority from buying private Alabama power properties (TIME...
Impervious to politics, ballyhoo, everything except strict justice, is the jurist before whom Bruno Hauptmann will go on trial for his life. He is Supreme Court Justice Thomas Whitaker Trenchard, affectionately called "Uncle Tom" by his cronies in Flemington, where he has presided at the sitting of the Hunterdon County Court for years...
Nobody was more puzzled by this spectacle than Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson, who sent Al Capone to prison but who was no fresher in his mathematics than any other jurist nearly 50 years out of school...
Destruction of the picture did not seem like chivalry to Police Judge William A. H. Ely. Within four hours that Republican jurist had sentenced John Smiukse to six months in the Westchester County Penitentiary at Eastview. At the end of that time he will be rearraigned for illegal entry into...
...jurist and lacking even a high school diploma, the intuitive Chancellor some months ago ordered Minister of Justice Franz Gürtner to produce concrete suggestions. Last week Dr. Gürtner advised Herr Hitler that the revised code should...