Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court in Washington, D. C. rose to their feet. At the same instant, the nine Justices who had been awaiting the cue for their entrance, filed through three apertures in the white curtains at the end of the room, took their places behind the 30-ft. mahogany bench with celerity belying their years (51 to 81). Almost before the crowd had seated itself a summary of the day's first decision was being read...
...person out of every 50 in the U. S. last week bundled up too heavily, paid for a ticket, sat on a hard bench to watch 22 ardent young men in jerseys and leather helmets push an ellipsoidal ball back-&-forth within a 120-yd. space. Some went frantic at the results...
Sitting on the bench, Duke's Coach Wallace Wade had an agonizing afternoon. He had to watch his team being whipsawed by the kind of inspired passing attack that is apt to demoralize the ablest of teams, and he was not used to the excitement of winning games by one-point margins. Only once before in his 19-year coaching career had that happened to him, on an historic occasion in 1926 when his Alabama team beat the University of Washington in the Rose Bowl by the exact score of last week...
...first, Hull, carries more personal prestige than any man in the administration. He is, however, past sixty; and may see his last days from the swivel chair of the Supreme Court bench. Wallace has dropped from the headlines of late but he has been quietly acquiring political knowledge, and, even more valuable, political friendships. He will bear watching, for the West is coming into its own and Henry Wallace has become dear to the farmer's hearts. Earle, by birth and rearing a political carbon copy of Roosevelt, has neither the former's personality, ability nor integrity. His labor record...
...Quinn took a prominent part in putting all these five judges on the bench. About four years ago, the whole Supreme Court composed of Republicans was forced to resign after years of service; and a complete new court with a majority of Democrats was chosen in its place by the legislature under the management of the Democratic organization, in which Mr. Quinn (then Lieutenant-Governor) was an outstanding leader...