Word: benchful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possibilities of the Court's decision, as they affect the power of the President and of the Senate, may be far-reaching. If the President has the power of summary removal, a future President might use it indiscriminately, removing even judges from the bench. If a definite consent of the Senate is needed for removal, a new check is placed on the President. Or it might be that, when the Senate approved a successor, it would, in that act, be considered to give its consent to a man's removal; and a man might be considered to continue in office...
James M. Beck, Solicitor General of the U. S., recently published a second edition of his book on the U. S. Constitution bearing an introduction by Calvin Coolidge and a dedication, to "the Masters of the Bench of Gray's Inn [London]". A previous edition had been dedicated to "the Honorable Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney-General of the United States, a true and loyal friend, a fair and chivalrous...
Justice. Attorney General Stone, the teacher of law, he, the greatest part of whose career has been within the precincts of learning, was nominated for transfer to the Supreme Bench. It was suggested that in the Cabinet ha had proved too nonpolitical, that the handshakings and granting of little favors which is the politician's life and success, did not come easily...
...French Parliament reassembled after the New Year's vacation. Premier Herriot was in his place on the Government bench. It was his first public appearance since his illness (TIME, Dec. 22, et seq.), and he attended the session, as he said, to prove his protesting doctors false prophets. To his friends, he said that he was feeling perfectly able to stand the strain of debate...
...highest honor in the Law School will be at stake this evening when the Scott Club and the Langdell-Marshall Club meet in the finals of the Ames competition. Tonight's case, the climax of a three year competition among the Law School Clubs will be tried before a bench of three justices in the center lecture room of Langdell Hall at 8 o'clock...