Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernie Baruch ran the famed War Industries Board in World War I, showed such a grasp of total war that the German military men later wrote of his handiwork in awe. In World War II, from his favorite bench in Lafayette Park across from the White House, he has been an informal adviser to Franklin Roosevelt and many members of the war cabinet. But not until this week-except for his brief tour of duty investigating the 1942 rubber scandal-did Bernie Baruch lose his unofficial status. He will still serve without pay or title...
British judges and assessors sit on the Ethiopian bench. Britons operate the railroad from Addis Ababa to Dire Dawa near the French Somaliland border. British officers control the Ethiopian police force, train Ethiopian soldiers. A British commission controls the Addis Ababa wireless. A British air commission rules the air over Ethiopia. Britain uses, rent free, an estimated $320 to $360 million worth of property left behind by the Italians. A British financial commission helped set up a new Ethiopian state bank. The United Kingdom Commercial Corp. expedites what trade there...
...England's greatest liberals. A Lancashire draper's son and a newspaperman before he entered the law, he was King's Counsel, an M.P., a Cabinet Minister before becoming Lord Chief Justice. Kindly, diffident in private, he was sometimes blisteringly outspoken on the bench. "The only impartiality pos sible to the human mind," said he once, "is that which arises from an understand ing of neither side of the case." On judges : "The secret [of being a successful judge consists], I fancy, in two things: first, a prolonged and severe training at the Bar; secondly, a full...
...recent convert to baseball, Four-Striper McClure is now a rabid fan. When Seaman Rizzuto made a home run in a recent game with the Washington Senators, the Certain sprang off the players' bench, rushed out to shake his hand as he crossed the plate. During another game, when fly-chasing Di Maggio backed into a deep gully on the edge of the field, Captain McClure jumped into his private jeep, scooted across the field to see if he was hurt. The Captain is constantly tacking notices on the clubhouse bulletin board. The morning of a game with...
Montgomery had learned the lesson, too. His example was Ritchie's failure before Tobruk: a massed and disastrous assault by British tanks without infantry support. (Said one American observer: "He sent the backfield into the game but kept the line on the bench.") At El Alamein it was different. Montgomery's spear head of armor burst through a breach made by artillery and infantry...