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Last year U. S. District Judge Charles Irvin Dawson of Louisville upheld the Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Act "with extreme reluctance." Then this thin-lipped Southern Republican began to bear down on the New Deal in earnest. In quick succession he declared illegal the condemnation of private property for PWA slum clearance, the NRA Bituminous Coal Code (TIME, March 11). Last week Judge Dawson struck his third blow by ruling AAA's Kerr-Smith Tobacco Control Act unconstitutional...
...track wire service, had accepted party funds from a man about to be tried for using the mails to defraud, had intervened to save a Kansas City gangster and a banking group, which included Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis and his brother, from Federal prosecution, had personally profited from PWA contracts. Just after Senator Long's running fight with Senator Robinson in the Senate last week, the Post Offices & Post Roads Committee quietly announced that it found insufficient evidence for an investigation of the Postmaster General...
...regime left behind to plague its successors. Not only is Judge Dawson a "Block" Southern Republican but also a Businessman who resigned some years ago as board chairman of Kentucky Home Life Insurance Co. No friend, to the New Deal, he recently ruled that condemnation of private property for PWA slum clearance was beyond the Federal Government's authority. And for the second time he declared last week that the NRA Coal Code was illegal...
...attorney remarked that he thought the Government had the right to utilize all the resources of a river, including the disposition of power created thereby. "That would be a benevolent dictatorship," shot back Judge Grubb, who simultaneously enjoined 14 Alabama communities from using PWA funds for municipal power systems on the ground that one arm of the Government (PWA) was, in effect, aiding & abetting another arm (TVA) in an illegal...
Senator Norris, godfather of the New Deal's whole power program, gloomily declared: "The effect of the injunction is practically to nullify the whole TVA Act." And PWA's chief counsel promptly announced that he would join TVA in speeding an appeal to the Supreme Court...