Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night he trips boyishly through the Common and says a Lieutenant (j.g.) lolling coeducationally on a park bench. So like it says in the book, he salutes, cheerfully, willingly, and briskly, no piker he. So the j.g. unwinds his wary arm and returns our hero's eager "good evening, sir" with a cheerful, willing, briks...
...most important legal cases in the history of the American press-is the Associated Press a monopoly?-finally reached court last week. On the expediting court bench sat three of the country's top-rank jurists, all of the U. S. Circuit Court: 1) learned Judge Learned Hand, 71, a remarkable stylist, liberal, a truly brilliant judge; 2) his cousin, Augustus Noble Hand, 73, singularly gifted with horse sense; 3) Thomas Walter Swan, 65, longtime (1916-37) dean of Yale's law school...
Into this situation came the third U.S. Food Administrator in four months - Judge Marvin Jones, smooth, bland, quiet ex-Congressman from Texas, who left the bench six months ago to aid Czar of Czars Jimmy Byrnes. He took time out to preside over the international food conference at Hot Springs, Va. (TIME, June 14). Jones apparently will have not one jot or tittle more power than Chester Davis...
...still drew a salary of nothing a year, which is all he needs. In his new job as consultant to Czar of Czars James F. Byrnes, he still operated from his rainy-day office in a Carlton Hotel suite, from his sunny-day office on a Lafayette Park bench, prodigally dispensing his wisdom, always counseling hope, always sticking to the fundamentals, talking torrentially in a rich mixture of Broadway words and the jargon of high finance. It is this talk, almost as much as his demonstrated ability, that has created the Baruch legend. No man can hear...
...extraordinarily successful. He studied and memorized corporation balance sheets; he courted his wife, Annie Griffen, the daughter of an Irish manufacturer, by reading railroad folders with her on a Central Park bench. He also picked up a pirate's knowledge of the shoals and reefs, the rich plunder and the dangers of the stockmarket from the tough crew who dominated Wall Street then: Thomas Fortune Ryan, James Keene, Henry Huddleston Rogers...