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...Busy though he was all week with the job of whipping his 1936 budget into shape for Congress, President Roosevelt found time to have oldtime Democrat Newton D. Baker to lunch at the White House. The Wartime Secretary of War was there not as a Party man but as an attorney challenging the constitutional right of TV A to sell electric power (TIME, Nov. 12). On subsequent days the President received calls from bigwigs of the utility world: Wendell L. Willkie, president of Commonwealth ; Southern; Preston S. Arkwright, president of Georgia Power; Floyd L. Carlisle, board chairman of Niagara Hudson...
...aspirations for the Speakership. Later in the day Representative Rayburn did the same: "There are no alibis. Under the circumstances, I cannot be elected." And next morning Representative Bankhead dropped out of the contest. Assured of election to the highest House post on the first ballot next month, Democrat Byrns began to expand, to think of himself as already belonging to the immortal company of great Speakers. To an old acquaintance who called him "Mr. Byrns," he said, "Call me Joe? or Uncle Joe. I don't like that 'Mister'." Washington chuckled, seeing only the remotest similarity between...
William Irwin Grubb was appointed Federal Judge 25 years ago by William Howard Taft after that fun-loving President received the following telegram from a group of Birmingham lawyers: NORTH ALABAMA IS STARVING FOR JUSTICE STOP FOR GOD'S SAKE GIVE US GRUBB. Now 72, slight, wiry and a Democrat, Judge Grubb runs his courtroom smartly, shames attorneys who waste his time. Born & bred in Cincinnati, he went to Yale with a brother of President Taft. His opinion last week was handed down in denying a TVA motion to dismiss an injunction petition filed by a group of Alabama Power...
...highly-paid lawyers" of the utility industry's trade association are none other than Democrat Newton Diehl Baker and Republican James Montgomery Beck. Soon after the Grubb ruling last week Edison Electric Institute released a 57-page opinion on TVA constitutionality by Messrs. Baker and Beck. Following Judge Grubb's reasoning, Attorneys Baker & Beck concluded: "Neither the power to regulate interstate commerce (including specifically powers over navigation and flood control), nor any of the war powers, nor the power to dispose of government property, sustain the authority of the Congress to enact the Tennessee Valley...
...imprisonment had cost Democrat Holt his civil rights, prohibited him from voting or holding office. Last week Democrat Franklin Roosevelt removed the obstacle by granting him a full pardon...