Word: bench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, Douglas has been trying to get the President to fill three vacancies on the Illinois federal bench, where the docket is badly overcrowded. By ancient senatorial privilege, as the state's only Democratic Senator, he is entitled to pick the men whom the President will nominate. He sent the White House three names, one of them a past president of the Chicago Bar Association. Jake Arvey's Democratic machine boys okayed Douglas' choice. But Harry Truman put off his decision, nursing a growing grudge...
...with the majority of baseball writers, were finally beginning to act as advertised. Vollmer's sensational spree was not the whole story: the Red Sox have power to spare with Williams, Vern Stephens, and Billy Goodman, the league batting champion. The team is better off this year in "bench" (i.e., reserve) infield strength supplied by Lou Boudreau, deposed Cleveland manager. Day after day, playing where he is needed most, Boudreau has sparked the Red Sox at bat and afield...
Silver-haired Governor Luther Youngdahl was the Republican Party's shiniest star in Minnesota. He had been twinkling brightly ever since former Governor Harold E. Stassen picked him off the state supreme court bench in 1946, persuaded him to run for governor. He was sometimes too radical for conservatives in his party, but when they opposed him he went to the people and won. Minnesota political pundits thought he could beat anybody for any office in the state, expected him to be re-elected for a fourth term in 1952 and to beat Democrat Senator Hubert Humphrey...
...bring judges, congressmen, and White House executives here to present the American political setting. Justices Felix Frankfurter of the Supreme Court, and Augustus Hand of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals have been invited, as has Senator Cabot Lodge, Jr. Judge Charles E. Wyzanski of this district's Federal bench has also expressed the hope that he can be present...
Judge Learned Hand, recently retired after 42 years on the federal bench in New York, turned up before a Senate subcommittee to discuss ethics in Government. Did he not think the moral standards of the country were lower now than in the days of Thomas Jefferson? No, said the judge, he did not. Even in the face of the recent gambling, basketball and narcotics evidence? Perhaps, Judge Hand concluded, it seemed so because the prizes of immorality had increased...