Word: pwa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England, reared in Utah which sent him to the Senate in 1905 and 1911, slim, grey-bearded old Justice Sutherland voted against the New Deal in twelve important Court decisions before he wrote last fortnight a unanimous opinion sustaining the Government's right to finance power plants with PWA funds. In retirement, he will live in Washington, stand ready to serve occasionally in crowded lower courts-like Justice Van Devanter (see p. 18). Since all eight remaining Justices, except Minnesota's Butler, come from East and South, it seemed a virtual certainty that Justice Sutherland's successor...
Surprise. Few practices arouse more bitterness among utility men than that of Federal money to build municipal plants which compete with private companies. When the PWA made a loan and grant to establish public plants in four small northern Alabama communities, the constitutionality of the project was promptly attacked by Commonwealth & Southern's subsidiary Alabama Power Co. A similar action was brought by Duke Power Co. against Greenwood County, S. C., which obtained a PWA loan and grant for construction of the Buzzard Roost hydro-electric project on the Saluda River. Both companies charged that PWA Administrator Harold...
...President's desire for a balanced budget. Biggest slash being considered-in anticipation of the President's budget message to the regular session-was $500,000,000 from the $1,500,000,000 relief appropriation for the current fiscal year. Others were $100,000,000 from the PWA's appropriation of $600,000,000, $75,000,000 from the Civilian Conservation Corps's $275,000,000. With the addition of other minor cuts along the line, as well as the $112,000,000 asked by the President from its road-building largesse to the States...
...likely to compromise unless Recession grew even blacker. The pressure from the Right wing of the Administration was heavy but his advisers on the Left wing urged him to hold out until after the major legal tests of the power program are decided. The Duke Power case (PWA grants), and the Electric Bond & Share case (holding companies) await the attention of the Supreme Court. The famed 19-company challenge to TVA's constitutionality was on trial last week in Chattanooga. It is the first important case to come before one of the new special three-judge tribunals from which...
Last year Amishmen and Mennonites of East Lampeter Township, Pa. petitioned the Government not to grant $56,200 of PWA money to their school board for a consolidated school. Their petition failing and the school completed, the Mennonites were about to defy the law and keep their children at home last month, when Pennsylvania's liberal Governor George Howard Earle came to the rescue. He ordered that they be permitted to put their children in rural one-room schools as they had been accustomed to. In gratitude last week 500 Mennonites and Amishmen of East Lampeter voted to give...