Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Party hierarchy. Curious spectators stood for hours in pushing lines for seats to the small upstairs room, finally forced the committee to move down, to a big third-floor courtroom. There flashbulbs flared like heat lightning through the forest of television and newsreel cameras. From the judge's bench, mild-mannered Estes Kefauver presided with a firm hand, as Chief Counsel Rudolph Halley, an able, professionally annoying examiner, hammered at the unhappy witnesses. At Kefauver's right sat Maryland's judicial-mannered Herbert O'Conor, Wyoming's Lester Hunt and New Hampshire's pious...
Oliver subsequently became a chief justice in Massachusetts but was very unpopular because of his pro-British sentiments in the years before the Revolution. Several impeachments failed to remove him, but finally a mob dragged the judge from his bench only to let him escape. The next day an armed guard protected Oliver successfully...
Uncle Joe came up the hard way, and the country respected him for it. As a boy he sold calico and plowshares to support his widowed mother. Later he read law in a Terre Haute law office, slept on a wooden bench in the office. When he started practice, in Shelbyville, Ill., he was glad to trudge 20 miles to earn a $5 fee. He did not have to trudge long. A Congressman at 36, Uncle Joe spent 23 terms in the House, four of them as Speaker. But somewhere along the line, Uncle Joe got out of step...
...This is a trial, your honor," the bailiff said as the next case came up. Judge Stone lifted himself from his small chair and moved to the large one at the center of the Bench. A young blonde court secretary went into the back room and brought out the 30 year old female defendant. A policeman said he had gone out on a complaint from a taxi driver who was having trouble with his fare. When the policeman arrived he found this lady "so drunk that she was staggering all over...
Judge Poter Woodbury '24 of the Boston U.S. Circuit Court will also sit on the bench. The third judge has not yet been named...