Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virginia, the Judge is a Republican and a habitant of Oklahoma City. He is one of the best toastmasters and storytellers in the State, has been superintendent of Oklahoma City's schools, president of her Chamber of Commerce, international president of the Lions Clubs. On the Federal bench, to which Calvin Coolidge appointed him in 1928, Judge Vaught has a reputation for fairness: a big, bluff record which includes life-sentencing the kidnappers of Charles Urschel, bluntly telling a local company to pay no attention to the late NRA, restraining the U. S. from collecting coal taxes under...
...plaster statuet of Justice went sail ing through the air, crashed against the wall. Like prudent woodchucks the three judges ducked, shouting orders to clear the court. All over the courtroom Fascists and police were mixing it up. Furious Primo de Rivera kicked impotently at the panels of the bench itself, swept off files of papers...
Died. Charles John Baron Darling of Langham, 86, witty dean of His Majesty's High Court of Justice; in Lymington, Hampshire. Upped to bench and knighthood in 1897 when his impudent antics in Parliament dismayed William Ewart Gladstone, he jibed so often at counsel and witnesses that he soon won the traditional accolade of eccentricity by being cartooned (in cap & bells) by Max Beerbohm. Never at a public school or university, he lost no chance to poke fun at sporting Britain, thought football "muddy," cricket a "bore," maintained that marbles was his game...
...four months in jail on the grounds that a previous editorial had inspired a Royalist mob to give Leon Blum a cruel beating on a Paris street (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.}. Last week Editor Maurras, who is stone deaf, rushed forward to the Judge's bench, began shouting his fears that Leon Blum would lead France into war against Italy. "If my threats of death have prevented war between France and Italy, may they be blessed!" he screamed, brushing back his hair and consulting a handful of notes. The presiding judge interrupted to re-mark that...
...Wilbur Cox, to succeed him. President Cox is a member of a no table family. Brother Channing Harris Cox was a Republican Governor of Massachusetts from 1921 to 1924, now heads Bos ton's famed Old Colony Trust Co. Brother Louis Sherburne Cox sits on the Massachusetts Superior Bench. Brother Walter Randall Cox lives in Goshen, N. Y., is the most famed trainer of trotting horses in the U. S. In one Hambletonian, Goshen trotting classic, four Cox horses led the field. The Brothers Cox stem from pre-Revolutionary New Hampshire stock, were raised in Manchester, where their father...