Word: bencher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Party wanted it more potent than rich Sir Stafford Cripps who, although he is a graduate of swank Winchester College and a bencher of the Middle Temple, stands as far Left as any Briton will go who still recoils from Communism. Sir Stafford and his Leftist "Socialist Leaguers" wanted three main points incorporated in the platform on which Labor will stand when it goes before the nation either next year or in the 1936 general elections: 1) cooperation with the Communists. 2) immediate abolition of the House of Lords, 3) confiscation of industries, banking and estates without compensation...
Tucked away in the protocol of revision to which Cuba objects is a clause providing that hereafter World Court judges shall spend their whole time at The Hague. This displeases Cuba's World Court bencher, famed Judge Antonio Sanchez de Bustamante, recent President of the Pan-American Congress (TIME, Jan. 16 & Feb. 27, 1928). Trading on his international prestige, on his close friendship with Cuban Dictator-President Gerardo Machado, the learned judge makes a good thing of his "vacations" in Havana. The fees of his law firm swell yearly. Bluntly, this potent Cuban feels that all Hague and no play...