Word: bench
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admire its solemn dignity. His eye would have strayed upward, climbed the tower on which sits "Big Ben" and would have seen the light which shines above go out?the sign that a session had just ended. Not many minutes earlier, a weary man had risen from the Treasury Bench to make his way?some few hundred yards to his downy bed. . . . Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, had been battling for his maiden budget...
...days previously, the House having gone into Committee of Ways and Means, the Chancellor had mounted the Treasury Bench to expound to "his honorable friends" and to "the honorable gentlemen of the Opposition," including eight ex-Chancellors* and to the country and the world his deep laid plans for raising this fiscal year's revenues...
...Premier Paul Painlevé, followed by his ministers, took his seat on the Government bench, the Right parties of the Chamber arose, yelled: "Amnesty for Lenoir and Bolo Pasha."* The Premier began to read his ministerial policy. He touched upon the War sacrifices made by France. "Caillaux, get up the dead!" cried deputies (the bitter insinuation that the dead were turning in their graves because the hated Caillaux was again Minister of Finance...
...have demanded a retrial. You have preferred to come back here by the back door of electoral amnesty. . . . You doubted the possibility of victory [in the War] and risked the ruin of France. Not only do I refuse my confidence, but I consider your presence on the Government bench a defiance of the dead and living...
Justice Stone withdrew from the bench because he had handled the case as Attorney General...