Word: benchful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dispatch, the House voted, 302 to 62, that Judge English of East St. Louis, Ill., should face an impeachment trial on charges of "usurpation of powers and other high misdemeanors." Among other things, Judge English is charged with illegal manipulation of bankruptcy funds, with using profane language from the bench, with threatening attorneys and juries. Although his resignation does not openly admit his guilt, it is an admission that he is unwilling to risk an impeachment trial...
...Robert F. Wagner, Democrat, coming up from Brooklyn and the "East Side" with a plurality of 380,000. Mr. Wagner was elected. The new Senator was once a newsboy on the lower East Side with an extraordinarily keen mind and a lust for law. His untarnished reputation on the bench and the tarnished humanity of Tammany Hall and the power of the "Al" Smith banner were enough to lift him to the Senatorship...
Three hundred newspaper men and women sat in a curving, triple arc of chairs facing the judge's bench, the witness stand, the jury box, of a tiny courtroom in Somerville, N. J. The air was stuffy. An angular court crier (John Bunn by name) intoned in a creaky voice, "Hear ye. . . ." The reporters' pencils moved rapidly, their eyes searched the faces of the witnesses, the defendants, the lawyers. Occasionally a truck rumbled through the street outside. In here, a certain Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and her brothers, the Messrs. Henry and "Willie" Stevens, were on trial...
Indications today pointed to Slagel's being on the bench at the opening whistle. Roper has declared that he will play Slagle, but he would not be pinned down to picking him as a starter. The feeling in Princeton is that he will be reserved for a time when his presence will do most good, and that roper will save his star all he can for the Vale came a week...
...Speaking before the National Council of Women at London I said: 'There are many women more qualified to adorn the Episcopal bench than those who occupy it at the present moment...