Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...homesick for the good hearing that they enjoyed in their little vestibule of a courtroom in the Capitol. In their vast new marble chamber, in their vast new marble building, the acoustics are so poor that when Mr. Justice Roberts at one end of the bench leans forward to ask a question, Mr. Justice Cardozo at the other end can hardly hear him. Even when a stentorian counsel stands nearly opposite the centre of the bench, his words sound jumbled to all the Justices, his voice all false and hollow. The fault, so far as the Bureau of Standards...
...copy of TIME, Sept. 10, 1934 was handed up in King's Bench division last week for the inspection of Hon. Mr. Justice Swift. After scrutinizing it with care, His Lordship ventured, "It is apparently an American publication." Subject of the trial was a libel suit against Baron Beaverbrook's London Daily Express by intuitive Adolf Hitler's magnetic friend Dr. Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl. The gigantic Nazi Doktor is given to moments of extreme nervous excitement which he calms by striding about his office and inhaling great whiffs from a small green crystal bottle...
...elegant insurance company lawyer, resplendent in morning clothes, laid down his papers and stepped toward the bench...
From 1925 until last June Charles Irvin Dawson was Federal Judge in the Western District of Kentucky. From that bench he held unconstitutional: 1) Federal condamnation of land for slum clearance, 2) the Kerr-Smith Tobacco Act, 3) the NRA Coal Code. Then he resigned, because "I have been greatly disturbed by the tendency of Congress in the last three years to override all Constitutional limitations in the enactment of so-called New Deal legislation. . . . One of the impelling motives that prompted me to quit the bench was the deep-seated conviction that in the next few years I would...
...fortnight onetime Member of Parliament is Cyril Atkinson who at 61 sits upon the King's Bench Division of Britain's High Court of Justice. Fond of golfing, fishing, motoring, he has to remember a raft of things which few U. S. judges ever heard of. He must remember to wear his girdle, scarf, tippet, beaver hat, full-bottomed wig, ermine-trimmed hood & mantle on State occasions or when attending St. Paul's Cathedral. He must never wear his scarlet robe before Their Majesties the King & Queen. Yet he must mark the 24 Red Letter Days when...