Word: lumberman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago the Roosevelt Administration ducked its first opportunity for a clean-cut test of NRA's constitutionality when at the Government's request the Supreme Court dismissed the case against Lumberman William Elbert Belcher, who had deliberately refused to obey the Lumber Code (TIME, April 8). This procedure practically demoralized NRA's personnel, precipitated a nation-wide epidemic of petty code violations and put the Government in the equivocal position of asking for an extension of the NIRA without daring to risk a showdown on the Act's basic validity. To hush critical cries...
...retreat was from a ponderous myopic sexagenarian lumberman named William Elbert Belcher. For 29 years Mr. Belcher has been modestly engaged in turning the slash pine of Bibb County, Ala. into merchantable lumber. The retreat was also from one of the most respected and uncompromising septuagenarians of the South, Federal Judge William Irwin Grubb of Birmingham, whose decisions are very rarely reversed by higher courts. Last October, the Government brought Lumberman Belcher to trial before Judge Grubb on charges of paying lower wages and working his men longer hours than NRA's lumber code allowed. Defendant Belcher readily admitted...
...Claudio: each would walk ten miles afoot to see good armor. For John Woodman Higgins, who manufactured tin hats for the A. E. F. during the War, is an enthusiastic collector of ancient armor, has a private museum next to his stamping mill to inspire his workmen. With a lumberman, an elderly metallurgist, a surgeon and a number of museum curators he left Manhattan one evening last week, crossed the Queensborough Bridge to a spick & span brick blacksmith shop in a frowsy section of Long Island City. They were trailed by a carload of reporters, for the word had gone...
When Thomas Austin Yawkey spent approximately $1,000,000 of the $4,000,000 he inherited from the Detroit lumberman who was his foster-father to buy the Boston Red Sox in 1933, his earnest purpose was to put that city and that team back on the baseball map. Subsequent developments proved that he was not bluffing. He promptly spent $500,000 improving Fenway Park, $400,000 for new players. When the Red Sox, perennial tail-enders of the American League since 1924, finished in fourth place last season, Owner Yawkey was disappointed. Last week, almost before other big-league...
...near Everett. When the ore deposits proved shallow, he switched to lumber. For years an ally of the mighty Weyerhaeusers, William Butler chose to stick to the comparatively secure logging business, let others do the milling and merchandising. He got the reputation of driving a hard business bargain. A lumberman named Joe Irving, wrathful at being squeezed by Butler, is said to have muscled his way into the financier's office with a .45, promised Banker Butler: "If I go, you'll go too." The story goes that Banker Butler made Joe Irving his partner...