Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court, but will inevitably result in putting a stigma on these new judges themselves and make them objects of contempt, however conscientious or independent they may prove to be. They would be King's men". A sombre warning for any one with ambitions to sit on the new bench...
...spite of having celebrated his 75th birthday the day before, cast hardly a glance at his jam-packed courtroom as he took his seat. With a rustling of robes his Associates joined him. The Chief Justice, turning his head, gave a brief nod toward the right extremity of the bench. Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts, end man of the Court, took up a manuscript and began to read...
...sister, never good friends, for a legal fight that promises to be historic. To his little office above a grocery store in small Port Henry (pop. 2,040) came a bigger estate case than Surrogate Harry E. Owen had ever thought of in his 20 years on the bench. As administrator he appointed Essex County's youthful District Attorney, bulky, bespectacled Thomas W. McDonald...
...bitterly opposed to packing the Supreme Court," he said. "I think that the idea of an executive appointing judges with a free hand is fatal, and to remove justices from the bench because they are of a different opinion from the executive's is equally unwise It is the subterfuge with which the whole matter has been surrounded which is objectionable...
...fetchingly as possible the qualifications of Producer Darryl Zanuck's latest discovery, Indian-blooded Don Ameche, whose fan mail at Twentieth Century-Fox has lately been second only to Shirley Temple's. Ameche is Peter Nostrand, a good-humored playboy who, while trying to escape from a bench warrant in a divorce suit, encounters Millicent Kendall (Ann Sothern') trying to escape from an undesirable suitor. By the time both have been chased by the same motorcycle policeman into refuge at the same Adirondack cabin, Nostrand thinks Millicent is a summons server, she thinks he is a gangster...