Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office to discuss the President's breathtaking proposal for rejuvenating the Judiciary (TIME, Feb. 15). Talk skimmed over various features of the plan. "Speaking solely for Joe Robinson." the 64-year-old Majority Leader, who hopes his next step up will be to the Supreme Court bench, observed that justices might well be superannuated at 75 instead of the President...
...past few years killing the umpire at every close play has taken root because of the fear of bias in umpires chosen only by the home team. If visitors at Harvard crab decisions made by Harvard umpires, the Harvard bench must rise to protect its interests. At games away, on the other hand, the team must ride the officials in order to get a fair deal. Thus, by a subtly growing process, the bench turns into a concentration camp of hatred, and the professional spirit,--that the game must be won by whatever hook or crook comes in handy,--tends...
...moving object with a pop bottle than a stationary one." Pop bottles are as out of place at Soldiers Field as they are welcome at Fenway Park, and the Harvard team can rise to new heights of baseball proficiency when pop bottle tactics are banished from the bench and the bases...
...typified by the New York Times, which sternly said: "Cleverness and adroitness in dealing with the Supreme Court are not qualities which sober-minded citizens will approve." Said a Scripps-Howard editorial writer: "Though not as crude as President Grant's coup adding two members to the high bench to win majority approval of his legal tender law, Mr. Roosevelt's proposal, in its political sense, is designed to achieve the same end. And because that purpose sticks out like a sore thumb, the President must accept much of the responsibility for returning the controversy to the realm...
...Hughes had said it in a lecture delivered at Columbia University in 1930. Other quotations from that lecture: "I agree that the importance in the Supreme Court of avoiding the risk of having judges who are unable properly to do their work and yet insist on remaining on the bench, is too great to permit chances to be taken...