Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right. Now the Mooney lawyers had for the first time been able to put their case in full before the California Supreme Court. Acting on a suggestion from the U. S. Supreme Court when it refused to free their client, last winter, they were now asking California's highest bench, through a referee, for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that Mooney was convicted on perjured testimony with the knowledge of the prosecution. Granting of such a writ would be tantamount to acquittal...
Another factor which may have influenced Harlow's decision with regard to Lane is the temporary retirement from action of Freddy Moseley. Yesterday Moseley appeared on the field in street clothes and got no closer to service than the spectator's bench. Unlike Watt his disability is not serious and he is expected to be back either today or tomorrow...
...children, saw him grow rich & famed, died in 1912. Next year Mr. McAdoo became Woodrow Wilson's first Secretary of the Treasury and, somewhat hopelessly because he was already a grandfather and twice her age, began courting the youngest of the President's three daughters. On a bench near the foot of the Washington Monument one December evening he plucked up courage, proposed, was accepted. Secretary McAdoo, 50, and Eleanor Randolph Wilson, 24, were married in the White House in the spring of 1914. She bore him two daughters, accompanied him to California after he had retired...
...time drug-addict, a converted cowpuncher, a ''reformed Presbyterian deacon" gave testimonials. A brief, fierce sermon whipped up the pulses of 1,500 people in the arched, open-walled tabernacle. One by one they hurried up to kneel in straw and sawdust by a long bench-like altar. Rawboned, hot-eyed men lifted clasped hands high in prayer. Women wailed, waved their arms, chanted gibberish. Small bewildered children noisily imitated their elders. The din rose, night after night, week after week, while plain people nearby stirred crossly in their beds...
...jury had been out more than 27 hours when Federal District Judge Frederick H. Bryant returned from dinner at 8 p. m., took his place on the bench. Just before 9 o'clock the jurors-eight farmers, a school superintendent, a storekeeper, a baker and a guide-shuffled into...