Word: bench
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Earl C. Michener of Michigan, began a recital of the facts concerning the appointment by the House of himself and his eight colleagues as "managers" in impeachment proceedings against Judge English, and he read five lengthy articles of impeachment, charging the Judge with arbitrary and abusive acts on the bench and with collusion with one Charles B. Thomas, referee in bankruptcy, for the sake of profit for themselves, their families and friends in the handling of the property of bankrupts. Manager Michener then demanded Judge English's conviction and removal from office for these alleged misdemeanors, and the Vice President...
...vacant chairs here." (Applause.) But that sally was considered irrelevant. And for this theory of impeachment there is good authority. Chief Justice Taft has said: "The trial and the judgment [of Judge Archibald in 1913] were most useful in demonstrating to all incumbents of the Federal bench that they must be careful in their conduct outside of court as well as in the court itself and that they must not use the prestige of their judicial position, directly or indirectly, to secure personal benefit. By the liberal interpretation of the term 'high misdemeanor' which the Senate has given it, there...
...attorney-general upon that occasion so far transcended the bounds of ordinary legal ethics as to bring sharp criticism from the journals of opinion. And although circumstantial evidence and the past record of Chapman point very strongly to his guilt, the treatment accorded to him by the Connecticut bench will always be viewed by unprejudiced observers as a sign of the "crime-wave" hysteria which has been undermining the ordinarily cautious procedure of our courts...
...other portraits recently acquired are one of Sir Thomas Plummer, painted by Thomas Laurence, and the other of Francis Bacon, Lord Vernlam, by Van Summers. There is also an oil painting of Mr. Justice Gould of the King's Bench...
...guessed he would have his daily shoeshine (he is an engaged man). Hailing a bootblack, he seated himself on-a park bench. Thought waves began to dizzy him. Some strange association of ideas was rising up his spine. A man came and sat next to him-very agitated-on the park bench ... on the bench . . . bench. Of course, a "bench" was a symbolical term for a branch of the Government. He furtively slipped his hand under the seat, felt a piece of adhesive tape. The tape was supporting some small, cold, metallic object. He wrenched it loose, the Evening World...