Word: bench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they had not learned to use the new legs yet. Barnes seldom said anything except: "I disremember." Prosecutor John Carpenter also livened things up by appearing every day in a gayer ensemble than the day before, while Judge Wilson ("Coot") Warlick maintained a running fire of admonition from the bench: "Keep your shirts on. . . . Somebody will...
...submit it in draft form and to keep this draft secret while the Cabinet considers it. Last week Mr. Lloyd George in his note demanded back his New Deal with full permission to publish it. For answer big, calm English Baldwin crossed the House, sat down on an opposition bench beside the excited little Welshman and asked him to continue to wait...
Below the Commissioners, zeal and experience are more evenly balanced. General Counsel John J. Burns, like Commissioner Landis, was a Harvard Law School professor. Self-made son of Boston Irish immigrants, he was elevated to the Massachusetts Superior Court bench before he was 30, quitting three years later to join the New Deal...
...Soldier Robinson, however, may never participate in another Arkansas campaign. His consuming ambition is to sit upon the U. S. Supreme Court. And most of wise Washington believes that President Roosevelt has already promised him the first vacancy on that high bench, as a suitable reward for nearly a generation of able Congressional service...
...that three detectives and a patrolman were dismissed, five police officers, including Chief Culligan, were suspended "pending further developments," grand jury and bar association inquiries were started and anyone in St. Paul who had recently had any shady dealings with the police found himself sitting on the anxious bench...