Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Manhattan yachtsman and investment banker, cousin of the President, has found a personal solution for the housing shortage in Washington. On business visits to the Capital, he buys a round-trip ticket so that he cannot be ejected from Union Station, sleeps there curled up on a bench...
Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson presided over the finals of the competition. Sitting with him on the bench were Justice Harrie B. Chase, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Judge Cavlert Magruder of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit...
...only Alabama Governor ever to serve two full terms, was preparing, when he died, to campaign for a third. He was nicknamed "the Klan Governor" when he first took office, later dropped his Ku Klux membership. When ex-Klansman Senator Hugo Black went to the Supreme Court bench in 1937, Graves appointed his wife to fill the vacancy...
Balance. In Memphis, Criminal Court Judge Tom Harsh got a new bench-mate-Judge James Pleasants...
Emphasizing that these new regulation may be exploited by men eager to evade the new program, Samborski claimed that the House teams may be restricted to only those essential for complete teams. "We can't have 20 or 25 men on the bench during a ball game or on the banks during a crew race," he declared...