Word: radford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point in question but not on 77-B as a whole. Said the Court: "The rights [threatened] are substantive property rights, and any invasion of them under ... the present statute is as clearly violative of the due-process clause of the Fifth Amendment as it was in the Radford case."-* BUT: Section 77-B was still "an operable statute," since only the section involving coercion of majorities, not minorities, was unconstitutional...
Last autumn the Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank was stayed from foreclosing a $9,000 mortgage on William W. Radford's 170-acre Kentucky farm by a brand-new device for scaling down farm debts and forestalling foreclosures-the Frazier-Lemke Act, a non-Administration measure filibustered to passage by Senator Huey P. Long in the last days of the 73rd Congress. That law permitted a farmer to declare himself bankrupt and keep his farm by having its current value appraised, then paying this sum to his creditors within five years. Farmer Radford got his debt scaled down...
...RADFORD BASCOME JR. St. Petersburg...
...city and make a name for himself, but little things prevent it. After 20 years, he is still talking about leaving, still accepting vegetables in payment of his fees. When Letty McGinnis (Dorothy Jordan)-at whose birth he performed a Caesarean operation-gets into trouble with young Bill Radford, Dr. Watt has to stay on and see that she recovers from drinking poison. Bill marries Letty. When Bill begins misbehaving and Letty falls ill, it is Dr. Watt, not his son Jimmy, grown into a prosperous young surgeon, who saves her life again. His reward for a lifetime...
...Case. Appalachian Electric Power Co. wants to build an $11,000,000 dam and plant on the New River near Radford, Va. The Federal Power Commission offered it a standard license whereunder its plant investment would be strictly scrutinized, its rates regulated, its property recaptured by the U. S. after 50 years. Such a license Appalachian declined, on the ground that the New River is non-navigable, therefore beyond F. P. C.'s jurisdiction...