Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Appeals and brother of the Governor. Reports were rife last September, when Governor Lehman was being urged to save Democracy from Tom Dewey, that if the Governor would only run, his brother could order a new black robe and take his place at one end of the Supreme Bench. It is just because those reports were so frequently heard that it would be extremely embarrassing now for the President to appoint Mr. Lehman...
...Landis went on, "these agencies have of late been entrusted more and more with interpretation of policies, policies which until the turn of the century were largely a phase of the judicial department. During the 19th century, the responsibilities of the government's opinions were carried on by the bench, and were little affected by the legislature...
...sinecure as Chicago's representative in Big Ten Councils, he got a job as football coach at the little College of the Pacific. Last week 76-year-old Alonzo Stagg, still spry and ruddy in his 49th year of coaching, came back to Chicago, sat on a hard bench in the stadium that is named after him and, with mixed emotions, watched his smart little Pacific team trounce the Maroons...
When the Citizen forced Judge Bostwick off the bench, Publisher Wolfe was so hopping mad he slashed the price of the Dispatch to 1?. It is still there, one of the few remaining penny papers in America. The Citizen stayed at 2?, has some 80,000 circulation (Dispatch: 168,000). Scripps officials believe their new Sunday paper will make money, insist the Wolfes' retaliation will be a boomerang. Said one Scripps spokesman: "They are only cutting their own throats...
...bench" on Wednesday night will be Judge Morris A. Stoper, of the United States circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth District; Judge Horace Stern, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; and Judge Vincent L. Leibell of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York...