Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fourth and final question was whether the Government had the right to buy transmission lines to take power from its legal dams to market. Said Chief Justice Hughes: "The question here is simply as to the disposal of that energy, and the Government rightly conceded at the bar in substance that it was without constitutional authority to acquire or dispose of such energy except as it comes into being in the operation of works constructed in the exercise of some power delegated to the United States. . . . The Government is not using the water power at Wilson Dam to establish...
Therefore, since all else is legal, the Government may acquire transmission lines to take its by-product to any "reasonable market...
Lawyers, pondering the decision, foresaw that this enthusiasm might assume too much. Only the Wilson Dam had been declared legal. Some other dam might be found otherwise. The Court did not pass on the right of the Government to retail electricity, only to take the necessary steps to get rid of a byproduct. Nor did the Court pass on the right of the Government to distribute its power for social purposes in a wider area than would constitute a "reasonable market." However, TVA men had a right to rejoice: They had been freed of a major legal threat, could accomplish...
...Long cracked down on the "lying newspapers" of his State, which were almost solidly against him, seven law firms were mustered by the nine publishers most affected to seek a permanent injunction restraining the State Public Accounts Supervisor from levying the tax. At the preliminary conferences to decide the legal strategy of combating the Louisiana tax, majority sentiment favored a fight along the line that the tax was discriminatory in that it applied to no "general class" of business. Up spoke the Item-Tribune's Deutsch in behalf of a broad-gauge contest for freedom of the press...
...receivers report that application for a loan to finance reconstruction of the Extension would not be looked upon favorably." In other words, the 128 miles of over-water railroad will probably be abandoned. Only hope is the Flagler will. The receivers have won the first round of a legal battle to compel the Flagler trustees to come to the aid of the Flagler System, but an appeal is expected, since the trustees apparently believe that further investment in the road would be folly.* Meantime Florida East Coast's Havana freight traffic is being handled economically through Miami and Port...