Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lord Wright is now a member of the House of Lords, the highest legal tribunal of England. He was formerly Master of the Rolls and before becoming a Law Lord was a Judge of the High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division. He has been chairman of the Committee on Law Revision and has been the author of numerous articles on current English law. The English peer was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and holds honorary LL.D.'s from the Universities of Birmingham and London...
...courtroom shivered. Witness Boston's jaw dropped. So did Prosecutor Dewey's. He and Attorney Stryker strode to the bench where sat stern-faced Justice Ferdinand Pecora. Attorney Stryker argued that the prosecutor's remark had nothing to do with the trial at hand, was deliberately prejudicial to his client. Prosecutor Dewey insisted that the question was proper and justified. Justice Pecora, with face sterner than ever, recessed court for the week-end to decide...
...acres of sugar land and operates the Central San Vicente. Rubert Hermanos, Inc. maintained: 1) that it was engaged primarily in sugar manufacture rather than agriculture; 2) that the Government was estopped from withdrawing the Hermanos franchise because the law had been neglected so long. Down from the bench came a contrary opinion canceling the Hermanos franchise and imposing a fine of $3,000 (the statute violation is a civil, not criminal offense). As for Rubert Hermanos' contention, crackled Associate Justice Martin Travieso...
...Felix Frankfurter is the most outstanding personality to continue and carry out the judicial philosophy of these great statesmen [the late Associate Justices Holmes and Cardozo]. The common people of America have faith in President Roosevelt. He will perpetuate that faith if he places Mr. Frankfurter on the Supreme bench...
...Cochrane, baseball's best catcher. In 1935, after he had led the Tigers to two successive American League pennants and the first world championship in its history, Catcher-Manager Mickey Cochrane became the hero of Detroit. In 1936, Manager Cochrane had a nervous breakdown, was away from the bench for six weeks. Last summer a pitched ball fractured his skull, ended his playing career. Last week, Mickey Cochrane, 35, reputedly the highest-salaried ($45,000 a year) manager in the game, was fired...