Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Better Than No Church. The Hungarian government announced last week that the Hungarian Bench of Bishops had agreed 1) to "acknowledge and support" the Communist constitution; 2) to take steps against priests who direct their activities against "the legal order"; 3) to request Roman Catholics to "take part in the great work" of Red Hungary; 4) to support the phony peace petition which the Communists are circulating the world over. In exchange, the Hungarian state promised to support the church financially for the next 18 years, to guarantee "complete freedom of religion," and to return to the church eight parochial...
...signed on behalf of the Bench of Bishops was no habitual appeaser. He was Archbishop Joseph Grosz of Kalocsa, a 63-year-old churchman whose character and courage are above question. When in 1945 Nazi bullies broke into his palace at Kalocsa and ordered him with drawn machine guns to get out of town, said Grosz: "I can face any kind of machine gun and if necessary I can even die at this desk." The Nazis left and the archbishop stayed...
Last came the nomination of Carroll Switzer to an Iowa judgeship. Switzer was the Democrats' defeated 1948 candidate for governor, and Harry Truman had not consulted Iowa's Senator Guy Gillette about appointing him to the bench. "A personal affront," said Gillette. Senators -who might want the favor returned some day-shouted their support of Gillette, rebuffing Harry Truman for the fourth time in one afternoon...
...that he had left out some of the great man's saltier habits "to avoid sidetracking our main story." Among the discreet omissions: the Chief Justice's regular excursions to Washington's burlesque houses, his well-thumbed library of spicy stories, his ear-curling, off-the-bench vocabulary. Also missing, from the parade of Justice Holmes's law secretaries: the 1929 incumbent, Alger Hiss...
...corpsmen. In a schoolhouse clearing station at Kwanni I saw doctors who worked the clock around for three days and three nights, resting on their feet with their eyes closed and heads against a wall for a few moments, while corpsmen moved one litter from the surgeon's bench and reached for another...