Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argument that younger judges are needed, it did not appeal particularly to most liberals, because the two outstanding examples in recent years of aged justices have been the Court's famed Liberals, Justice Holmes who resigned at 90 and Justice Brandeis who at 80 is still on the bench...
...context was: Since the interpretation of the Constitution falls upon the courts, to get an honest interpretation the Judiciary must be kept independent of political influence. He said: "I reckon him one of the worst enemies of the community who will talk lightly of the dignity of the bench. We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the Judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution. I do not want to see any direct assault upon the courts, nor do I want to see any indirect...
Touching upon the mechanics of the proposal, however, he said that he could see no mystical importance in the number 9 in regard to the Supreme Bench--a number which has varied in the past. The possibility of having an even number of Justices is also no serious obstacle, since 4-4 ties have not been infrequent under the present set-up when one of the Justices was disqualified from sitting upon a certain question due to close affiliation with one of the parties. There is a further possibility that, should the proposal go through, a strong tradition of resigning...
...Bible was born in Jefferson City, Tenn., 46 year ago, Biff Jones in Washington, D. C., five years later. Jones was captain of West Point eleven in 1917. Delta Kappa Epsilon Bible warmed the bench frequently as a football sub at Carson-Newman College. He supplemented his B. A. degree with graduate work at North Carolina, Ohio State, and Centre College. Before the war Bible had coached Mississippi College three years, Louisiana State one year. After the war Biff Jones rose from assistant coach at West Point to the head coachship (1926-26). Army regulations causing his transfer, he followed...
Dripping Fingers, One day last autumn some 20 Kansas City lawyers paid a call on Federal Judge Albert L. Reeves. They asked for a Federal investigation of Kansas City elections. Judge Reeves, tall, bony, with sagging cheeks, stone grey hair and 14 years on the Federal bench, told them to get evidence of fraud at the election on Nov. 3, promised to investigate fully after election...