Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With regard to the issue of the Supreme Court, America is 53 per cent in favor of making a majority on the bench of more than 5-4 necessary for declaring acts of Congress unconstitutional...
...ness for the man whose tongue and quick eye been ten years behind the mike. When given scope, as it is during the football season and in clubs, the tongue wins bordes of admirers s liberally with enemies. For example, when Ted Minnesota's 35 first stringers might be bench was at Princeton, or some such. Or when he t forked retort off-duty at critics or anyone else brushes with the man who has been ten years be the mile...
...last week were thoroughly uncomfortable. Judge Callahan was in no mood to put them at their ease. He had a few chairs placed outside the jury box for the Negroes to sit on. When one stage-struck blackamoor vacantly wandered into the jury box, his honor leaned over his bench, barked: "Here boy! Sit over there!" One of the Negroes lost no time explaining that his boss had recently shot himself while hunting, urgently needed him back home to run things. Two others guessed they were past the legal age limit of 65 for jurymen. One by one, the dusky...
Most disappointing of all is the news that scrappy Ben Hallow ell's shoulder injury will bench him for about a month, or almost the whole season...
...warning the court that it is concerned "Only with the power to enact statutes, not with their wisdom," and, what is as arrogant as it is redundant, that the justices must never fail to exercise self-restraint. It is hard to believe that Justice Stone's colleagues on the bench either deserve or need such a sermon. At no point in the majority opinion does the court lose the strict objectivity it has heretofore maintained. In this case Justice Stone is not addressing a frost-bitten or anti-social cabal. The decision is that of Hughes and Roberts as well...