Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constitutionality of eviction injunctions based on private agreements. When he had heard both sides out and considered the overtones, tall, well-groomed Judge Clarke decided to visit the disputed ground-popularly known as "Sugar Hill." As he rose to leave, spectators noticed a portrait of Lincoln hanging behind the bench. Breathed one burly Negro: "I hope that judge has eyes in the back of his head...
Hell's Fires. "We are gathered," said the presiding judge, Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, "to try crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity." With this mildly prejudicial statement, the Nürnberg trial opened. The four judges and their four alternates on the bench of the international tribunal sat reassuringly close to their respective national flags. Their high office and lofty task were symbolized by specially designed emblems, showing judicial scales suspended over a red area (presumably hell's punishing fires) and a fallen German eagle...
...amnesia victim, was the most morose-looking of all, his green-tinged skin drawn tightly about his cadaverous skull. He tried to pass the time by reading a book of Bavarian folk tales, but was much disturbed by stomach cramps, which made him rock back & forth on his bench. (Unimpressed, his U.S. doctor advised him to keep rocking.) The only display of what the Germans call Galgenhumor (humor of the gallows) came from ex-Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach. Said he, as he was served dinner in his cell: "If the victuals continue to get better, they...
...clear that the men whose brass-knuckle philosophy had brushed aside not only legalisms but law itself would seek refuge in legalistic arguments. The defense presented a motion "in re Göring et al," questioning the legal basis of the trial, which was promptly dismissed by the bench. The main defense points...
...Only victor nations were represented on the bench. Prosecutor Jackson's answer: "Either the victors must judge the vanquished or we must leave the defeated to judge themselves. After the first World War, we learned the futility of the latter course...