Word: benches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ernie Bevin had been spoiling for this fight for 20 years. In the House of Commons canteen he gulped a cup of hot coffee and an unbuttered bun. Then he slumped down on his front bench to wait for the bell...
Decline of Empire. When Bevin sat down after his first foreign policy statement in the House of Commons, one of his colleagues on the Government bench dryly remarked: "He's picked up all of Eden's principles and dropped nothing but his aspirates." (Commoner Bevin still occasionally drops his aitches; during the war he whipped on his workers with "Give 'itler 'ell!") Different as Ernie Bevin is in manner and method from urbane Anthony Eden, and from all the kid-glove and silk-hat diplomats before him, he has not veered from Eden's course...
...session of Parliament opened last week. The black-robed, bewigged Speaker strode up behind the gold mace and seated himself in his canopied chair. Prime Minister Clement Attlee came in early, lounged comfortably on his front bench, upped his feet on the table before him. Then Anthony Eden, Acting Deputy Leader of the Opposition, immaculate as ever but notably greyer, settled down on his own front bench, with his feet on the same table. Only six feet separated the Labor and Tory soles...
Harold Ickes made Hastie an assistant solicitor in the Interior Department. In 1937 Franklin Roosevelt named him U.S. District Judge in the Virgin Islands, the first Negro ever to sit on the Federal bench. As civilian aide to War Secretary Stimson in 1941, William Hastie pushed and prodded for Negro recognition in the services, finally got the War Department to set up the 99th (all-Negro) Fighter Squadron. Two years later, disillusioned over the Army's persistent segregation policy, he resigned...
This phase of the case focused attention for the first time upon the bench rather than the defendants, the prosecutors or the evidence. Lawrence, clearly the dominating personality among the judges, followed the proceedings closely, was able to give the prosecutors page references when they got lost in their own voluminous briefs. U.S. Judge Francis Biddle asked intelligent questions, not as if he wanted to know the answers, but as one who enjoyed asking intelligent questions...