Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only by the rare and cumbersome process of impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate can a U. S. judge be removed from the bench. The Constitution, under which such judges hold appointments "during good behavior," provides no middle course between complete guilt and complete vindication. Last week, however, the House of Representatives found a U. S. District Judge neither innocent enough for exculpation, nor guilty enough for impeachment. So the House resorted to an extra-constitutional process: Public Condemnation...
...party's head and front, is primarily responsible, was in serious trouble. One Senator after another came to tell the President that, for the party's good, he should ask Chairman Huston to resign. Chagrined though he was with his old friend's behavior, President Hoover was unwilling to turn him out precipitately, seemed hopeful that the scandal would, somehow, subside without his direct interference. In spite of Mr. Hoover's attitude, betting men about Washington would give long odds to anyone who thought that Mr. Huston would remain G. O. P. Chairman for many more...
Convict No. 23,118 worked as night interne in the Leavenworth hospital, taught a prisoners' night school, edited the New-Era, prison publication. His behavior was excellent. He took no part in last year's Leavenworth mutiny (TIME...
Arthur William Bell, Bailiff of Guernsey, cogitated on the bench. "There seems to be no doubt," said Bailiff Bell, "that there has been a direct contravention of the Clameur de Haro. There was risk of a serious breach of the peace by virtue of the accused's behavior. I am obliged, therefore, to fine him the nominal sum of one shilling...
...named Schomberg. Richard Arlen helps 'her to escape from disgusting fates imminent for her on every side. The sordid background Conrad had in his mind, a background in which, at the world's outposts, civilized formulas are stretched so thin that they become a satiric mirror for human behavior, has been changed into decorative and often admirable picture postcards. Best shot: Schomberg throwing the band leader downstairs...