Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also totally unnecessary became apparent last week when Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland called reporters into his office to show them a letter he had just sent the President. The letter: ". . . Being eligible for retirement under the Sumners Act ... I hereby retire from regular active service on the bench, this retirement to be effective . . . the 18th day of January...
Whee! Perhaps it's going to be Landis. Everybody stand round, and start looking for a new Law School Dean. Heaven forfend. Get Sutherland back on the bench quick. Perhaps it's going to be Frankfurter, and everybody knows he just runs the New Deal. Well, it might be Gus and it might be Bill and it might be Charlic. The American public can bet its boots that the presses will be full of conjecture about this public man and that. Then the choice comes. Somebody says he's good, somebody says...
...their monopolistic methods cost the public $60,000,000. Having listened to evidence from 263 witnesses in Milwaukee, a Federal grand jury last week was ready to announce its findings when crusty Federal Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger suddenly post-poned them. Judge Geiger in his 25 years on the bench has become known as one judge who will tolerate no legal shenanigans. Last week he had just got wind of considerable shenanigans...
...Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee who has publicly referred to himself as the "Dean Emeritus of Inconsistency," said to reporters: "If any President so far forgot himself as to appoint me to the Supreme Court, I would never take my place on the bench-because I would die of surprise." Next day the phonographic Senator told an autograph-beggar to write to his office. "I'll not only send you my autograph," said he, "but the greatest thing for insomnia you ever had-a set of my speeches...
...thought man would be better off without them. Like Chaplin, he has always been a little fellow, lost in an insane world of slickers. In that role he is both funny and sympathetic and never better than in the scene where he runs to a park bench to rest and read only to be badgered and bullied by some extraordinary performing dogs...