Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large question mark is the problem of the Supreme Court. Even if a less stringent system than the N.R.A. can swing the liberal group on the bench, there is little hope that the "due process brigade" will follow suit. It would be an unforgiveable mistake on the part of President Roosevelt to meet this in any but an orderly way. Packing the court would establish a precedent that would permanently destroy the usefulness of the tribunal. Two alternatives are left; wait for the more conservative members to die, or amend the Constitution. If the President is willing to wait several...
...Riley and Merrill (Larry Crabbe) are rivals for Cheers Reynolds, small town sweet-shop operator (Eleanore Whitney). O'Riley goes to little Green Ridge College where he warms the bench. Merrill becomes a star at big Sierra. Agile ballyhooing of the players' amatory conflicts, complicated by Merrill's infatuation for a cinemactress (Priscilla Lawson), builds Green Ridge into a Rose Bowl attraction. Here Coach Moore (William Frawley) wins the game by putting O'Riley in, disguised in a nose cast, after he has dismissed him from the team for improper behavior. Best part: Larry ("Buster") Crabbe...
...forcing her to appear at a Manhattan Jefferson Day dinner attended by President Roosevelt, Warner Brothers had violated her $3,000-a-week contract, claimed Cinemactress Bette Davis in a packed London courtroom of the King's Bench Division, where her U. S. employers were suing to stop her from fulfilling a $50,000 British film engagement. "As this contract stands," pleaded her lawyer, "Miss Davis could not become a waitress in a restaurant or an assistant in a hair dresser's shop in the wilds of Africa. . . ." Observed Sir Patrick Hastings, bewigged barrister for Vice President Jack...
...IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO ACCEPT THIS NOMINATION. With Statesman Stimson thus eliminating himself, the way was open for the League Assembly to elect a jurist against whom it could not well be argued that he was "political" and narrowly represented his country's interests on the World Court bench. Last week purist Geneva internationalists and League Secretariat members were immensely pleased when a Man from Missouri, Dr. Manley Ottmer Hudson, 50, a graduate of William Jewell College at Liberty, Mo. and of Harvard Law School, was elected to succeed as a Judge of the World Court onetime...
Premier Blum on his Cabinet's front bench grew visibly more and more nervous as the proletariat-pampering section of the bill was belabored by M. Paul Reynaud, long the chief advocate in France of devaluation and last week riding the crest of acclaim. Deputies and Senators who used to scoff at his ideas showed strong inclination to regard him as an expert pilot in the difficult monetary channel France must now navigate. Deputy Reynaud dismissed as of minimum importance the stabilization agreement Finance Minister Vincent Auriol had verbally obtained from U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau...