Word: bench
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back of the bench a door opened and black-robed Judge Harold Medina, a firmly fleshed man with elegant mustaches, lifted eyebrows and large, melancholy eyes, appeared. He seated himself in his high-backed chair. Then the solemn jury of four men and eight women, who had been deliberating for almost seven hours, filed into the jury box, and the clerk of the court faced the housewife in the chair of Juror No. 1. She stood up. "How say you?" the clerk asked...
...other was William Henry Hastie, 44, wartime civilian aide to the Secretary of War, and since 1946 governor of the Virgin Islands. Lawyer Hastie became the first Negro on the federal bench when he was appointed U.S. district judge in the Virgin Islands in 1937. Last week he was named to the third circuit court of appeals (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and the Virgin Islands), thus became the first Negro appointed to the second highest court in the federal system. Able Governor Hastie got his advancement in the same week that a college classmate got a sharp reverse: Manhattan Councilman...
...itself for the clash of two football titans-Notre Dame v. Tulane. From his mourners' bench at South Bend, Ind., Coach Frank Leahy cried, "We'll be outweighed for the first time in two years." On the Tulane campus in New Orleans, where Coach Henry Frnka (pronounced franka) had been holding secret practice for weeks, there was impressive silence...
...found out that Halfback Jackson was not quite right. The real explanation: in one of Columbia's modern, high-'frequency substitutions, only ten Columbia men had trotted on to the field. Columbia's right tackle, when Jackson got away on his run, was sitting on the bench...
Checks should be mailed to Miss Mabelle C. Springer, Wadsworth House. The Alumni Association will ship, express collect, one bench--uncensored...