Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From his bench in New Delhi last week India's Chief Justice Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer handed down a bombshell decision: Mohandas K. Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and 8,000 other Congress party leaders were being illegally detained by the Viceroy's Government. Reason: Rule No. 26, of the Defence of India Act, under which the Congress leaders were arrested and have been held without trial since last August, was invalid because "it went beyond the powers which the Legislature thought fit to confer on the Central Government...
Shrewd, sense-making Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who has turned down several war-czar jobs to stay on the bench. But Bill Douglas is not in any political hurry...
...Sleep, To Dream ... In Los Angeles, Nicholas De Christopher, with $99 in his pocket, fell asleep on a park bench, dreamed that he was being robbed, awoke too late...
...everything from trial marriage to free love, once led to his ejection from Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, when he shouted back at Bishop Manning, who had just assailed his "propaganda . . . in behalf of lewdness" from the pulpit. Soon after he reached the Denver bench 43 years ago, little Judge Lindsey started reforming juvenile-court procedure, set the trend away from formality toward privacy, toward distinction between adult crime and juvenile delinquency, a more sympathetic attitude toward delinquents, a more demanding attitude toward irresponsible adults...
Winston Churchill, entering the House for the first time since his recent recovery from pneumonia, early rose from the Ministers' front bench, squarely faced the opposition, lowered his taurian head and snorted: "This question should normally have been addressed to the Secretary of State for War, but since the Honorable Member, no doubt from those motives of delicacy which are characteristic of him, has preferred to put it to me I will answer it myself. ... I am advised that it [the letter] does not fall into the restrictions ... of the King's Regulations as it deals with political...