Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combines, has since drawn up most of Mr. and Mrs. Hearst's most intimate documents. In New York Mr. Shearn was defeated as a Democratic Hearst candidate for district attorney and later Governor, but finally won a seat on the State supreme court. In 1919 he left the bench for the bar, took along with him a pinched, judicial expression...
Guilty? Judicial Field Marshal Vasily Ulrich, famed "Shooting Judge" of Moscow trials, appeared on the bench last week wearing for the first time the Order of Lenin, "Highest Soviet Decoration," which he received after the last trial. With a bored air he superintended the routine by which prisoner after prisoner, as his name is called, pops up from the prisoner's box, pleads guilty to his section of the indictment (which he has already signed before entering the courtroom), pops down...
...located above and behind the judges' bench at Moscow trials in semidarkness. Now & then last week a cigaret could be seen glowing in The Box. It is believed to be at the disposal of the Dictator, but if he comes to watch proceedings darkness hides...
Confronted with a constant barrage of questions from a bench of judges that included Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, the Honorable Stanley E. Qua, Massachusetts justice, and John J. Burns, former counsel for the SEC, the Holmes Law Club defeated the Williston Club in the second round of the quarter-final Ames Competition last light...
Williston and Holmes Clubs will meet Friday night to argue points of labor law, before a bench including Mr. Justice Stanley E. Qua, of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Professor Felix Frankfurter, of the Harvard Law School, and John J. Burns, Boston attorney...