Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Victorious in defending eight major New Deal laws before the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Reed suffered three defeats, in cases involving NRA, AAA and the Bankhead Act (where a combination of overwork and hostility from the bench brought him to a courtroom collapse). After the AAA case his dark, lively wife, Winifred, long active in politics as registrar general of the D. A. R., performed the most audacious political feat of Washington's 1936 social season by inviting all the Supreme Court Justices to dinner...
...joining his former guests on the bench, Stanley Reed gets his first profitable promotion since going to Washington. His first job with the Farm Board paid $25,000, his second with RFC $12,500, his third as Solicitor General $10,000, but his fourth on the Supreme Court will...
...etiquette for a Supreme Court Justice, even if he is only a prospective one, to sit on the same Bench with lesser Judges...
...Supreme Court Justices who were over 70 the right to retire instead of resigning, with full pay of $20.000 a year guaranteed against any possible reduction by Congress. Justice Willis Van Devanter retired last May. Justice Sutherland's letter consequently reduced the rock-ribbed conservative element on the bench to two (Justices Butler and McReynolds), removed the potential balance of power from the middle-of-the-road conservatives (Chief Justice Hughes and Justice Roberts), gave the liberal wing (Justices Brandeis, Cardozo,-Stone,* Black and, presumably, Justice Sutherland's successor), a majority as effective as any the President could...
Knudsen, A production man who worked up from a bench to the presidency of General Motors is big-boned, slow-spoken William S. Kaudsen. Last week his summons to the Senate quiz was particularly pointed because he had just laid...