Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upset, Solicitor Reed pulled himself together and tried a new tack: The Court ought not to decide on the Bankhead Act because the record of the case did not cover all the points which should be considered for such an important decision. Again questions, right & left, from the Bench. Suddenly Solicitor Reed went ashen in the face, stammered, "I ask the Court's indulgence. I ... I ... am too ill to proceed...
...collection of processing taxes from them. In the Hoosac case Lawyer Pepper had, by contrast with Solicitor Reed, got off without being asked embarrassing questions by the Court. Not so John P. Bullington, attorney for the rice millers, who was peppered with interrogations from liberal members of the bench. To prove his clients' right to an injunction Lawyer Bullington explained that if the rice millers paid the tax and it was afterward declared unconstitutional they could not get their money back. The law permits refunds only to processors who can prove they have not passed on the processing taxes...
...judge of the United States District Court of Massachusetts, has been named, to hold the position until September 1, 1936. Judge McLellan graduated from Colby in 1895, and took his LL.B. at Columbia after which he practiced law in Boston until 1932 when he received his post on the bench...
...hand for the fun was Episcopal Bishop James Edward Freeman. Senator Costigan of Colorado had to stand. Down in front sat Attorney General Cummings and near him Solicitor General Stanley Reed who was to argue for the Government. The nine old gentlemen swished into their places at the bench with a majesty which even Bishop Freeman had to admire. First came a series of decisions on cases previously argued. Only one that interested the spectators was a case challenging the right of the Government to jail a man for "obstructing interstate commerce" in that he stole a bale of cotton...
...fighting labor, business did not hesitate to use intimidation, coercion, discharges, stool-pigeons, company unions. Moreover, Laborman Madden could cite a Supreme Court decision upholding the right to organize written by no less eminent a Republican than the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who once opined from the bench: "[Labor unions] were organized out of the necessities of the situation. A single employe was helpless in dealing with an employer...