Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This year Dwight W. Ellis withdrew Max from competition because he could not bear the thought of Daro's beating Max. As it was, Daro outshone his littermates Dora, Mora and Maro. Owner Ellis bred only for utility until two years ago. has since had success on the bench with dogs bred for both use and beauty. Sturdy Max was sturdy. Daro has been trained by Handler Charles Palmer to fetch pheasants as well as sprout feathers...
...second Supreme Court appointment -even more perfunctorily than in the case of Hugo Black. The Chief Justice administered the Constitutional oath to Stanley Reed, who then marched into the courtroom in his brand-new black robe to take his place as the 77th Justice to sit on the high bench, succeeding Associate Justice Sutherland. Before the former Solicitor General could sit in judgment, however, he had to take a second, judicial oath, swearing by God to "do equal right to the poor and to the rich...
...pregnant women. When he was two (1843) and again when he was 14 (1855), his father, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (Autocrat of the Breakfast Table), initiated campaigns to make doctors wash their hands before attending women in labor. And it was Judge Holmes who ruled from the Massachusetts bench in 1884 that "during the gestation period, the child is part of his mother's bowels," and therefore is not an individual capable of being injured in an accident...
...three o'clock one afternoon last week the small, highceilinged, brown-paneled U. S. District courtroom on the third floor of Chattanooga's new Federal building was so crowded that even the jury box had filled with spectators. At 3:05 a door opened behind the bench. Out strode the black-robed members of the first of the new three-judge Federal tribunals authorized under the Federal Court Reform Act of 1937 to hear cases involving the constitutionality of an act of Congress. Serious, bespectacled Judge Florence Allen of the Circuit Court of Appeals came first.* Stocky, white...
...only seven were Commissars a year ago, emphasizing the drastic nature of Stalin's recent "purge." Notably missing from this new Cabinet was Commissar for Justice Nikolai Vasilievich Krylenko, the pouncing prosecutor of early Moscow purge trials. Successor to Krylenko is Judge Nikolai Richkov, who sat on the bench which condemned to death famed Old Bolsheviks Piatakov, Kamenev and Zinoviev. Named new chief of the Caspian-i. e., No. 1 maker of five-year-plans-was Nikolai Voznesensky, formerly vice-commissar under famed Commissar Valery Mezhlauk...