Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Court Justices, the most influential judges in the U.S. are those who sit on famed "CCA-2"-the U.S. court of appeals for the second circuit (New York, Connecticut, Vermont). Last month Chief Judge Thomas Swan retired, at 75, from his $17,500-a-year lifetime seat on that bench. Last week President Eisenhower was getting ready to fill the job-the first important judicial appointment of his Administration. The choice lay between a candidate with top-drawer political credentials and one carrying the blue-ribbon endorsement of leaders of the second circuit's bench...
Syngman Rhee, Korea's veteran fighter for freedom, sat on a stone bench in his garden at Seoul. He still spoke against the truce, but his talk now was dull and resigned. There had been some fear that his ROK troops might refuse to withdraw from the buffer zone-but they ceased fire along with their U.N. comrades in arms (see below). Syngman Rhee, whose opposition might have wrecked the truce if the Communist hunger for a truce had not been voracious, now declared: "My desire is strong not to follow unilateral policy if it can be avoided...
...Giaimo, Allen and Giaimo began to dig deeper into the court. What they found provided the Press with frontpage headlines for weeks, scandalized Cleveland, and started a Bar Association investigation. Last week, as a direct result of the Allen-Giaimo stories, Probate Judge Nelson J. Brewer resigned from the bench and quit the practice of law for good. It was the first time that a Cleveland newspaper had forced a judge to resign...
...doling out trusteeships; Judge Brewer limited them to a few lawyers, named one lawyer (who had previously been suspended for faulty accounting) to handle assets of $245,000 for 25 mentally ill persons. From this lawyer, the trail led to the judge himself. Before his elevation to the bench, Brewer had also been named as guardian or trustee in numerous cases. Reporters Giaimo and Allen decided to check up on how Brewer had discharged those trusts, dug into the dusty records of nearly 1,000 old probate cases, visited mental asylums, talked to scores of widows, orphans, lawyers...
Last week, pinned down between the Press and the Bar Association investigations of his conduct on and off the bench, the harassed judge made one more banner headline: BREWER QUITS BENCH AND BAR, WILL RESTORE $6,300 SHORTAGES. Reluctantly, Brewer admitted that he was unable after many years to "present records or recollect facts," concluded, "Clearly, I have been careless...