Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high court in 1930. Promptly he found himself the deciding vote between the right and left factions of the pre-Roosevelt tribunal, as often as not sided with the left's dissenters. But as the turbulent 30s went by and seven Roosevelt appointees took their places on the bench, he became the court's chief defender of precedent and legal stability...
...Manhattan's Municipal ("poor man's") Court, the slight, grey-haired judge listened to many and varied complaints. (Sample: an indignant woman, exhibiting her ill-fitting false teeth, demanded a refund from her dentist.) The day's weary business done, the judge climbed from the bench and went uptown to his avocation: conducting 100 amateur musicians. Judge Leopold Prince was rehearsing his City Amateur Symphony Orchestra for the season's first summer concert...
...rulebook at him and ordered: "Study them. You're captain." Soon Ott's bleacher friends, who always shouted advice to their favorite right fielder, noted the little difference that responsibilities made and began calling him Ottie. So did the players and the management. Then Terry quit the bench for a front-office job. The Giants' secretary, fidgety, coffee-drinking Eddie Brannick, had an idea: "God gave us some thing. Let's use it." Giants' President Horace Stoneham agreed. Ott was the surprise something...
Twoscore Parlier Township ranchers showed up for the trial. Before the trial started they talked with Justice of the Peace L. B. Crosby, 65. Mounting the bench, Justice Crosby said: "I guess we know how we feel about this. What shall we do?" He did not wait for an answer. He sentenced Multanen to six months in jail, promptly suspended sentence...
...Washington, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, whose War Relocation Authority had heckled Valley authorities for their tolerance of terrorism, sputtered with rage: "A disgrace to the bench. . . ." Justice Crosby sputtered right back. His decision, he said, was "a community arrangement." Observed one Parlier resident: if the judge had been any tougher, he would have been run out of town...