Word: benching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taken out on the south lawn of the White House and given Distinguished Flying Crosses for the flight to Hawaii; Chief Justice Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court (again), with the eight associate justices, to pay respects and indicate that they had resumed sitting on the bench...
George Sutherland, 65, born in Buckinghamshire, England, and put on the high bench by President Harding. He spent his boyhood and young-lawyer's life in Utah, until sent to Congress. He is sometimes confused with a Scotch-Canadian namesake who, a good Baptist minister and college president, campaigns for the Anti-Saloon League in Nebraska. But not often, for he takes care to give "c/o Supreme Court of the U. S." as his address, in Who's Who, and wears a short beard of silver-tipped distinction. He is usually to be found on the vested-rights...
...Ohio, as the "most outstanding professional woman" of the nation. Miss Ruby is the only U. S. woman engaged in the business of ecclesiastical art. She designs, builds and installs art-glass church windows and also attends to the interior decoration of churches. Judge Allen has been on the bench of the Supreme Court of Ohio since 1923, was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U. S. Senate...
...Jewish Representatives, no Jewish Senators in the 69th Congress. A Jewish Cabinet officer was Oscar Straus who was Secretary of Commerce & Labor in Roosevelt's Cabinet (1906-09). Probably the highest public office held by a U. S. Jew today is the seat on the U. S. Supreme Court bench occupied by Louis D. Brandeis...
...Outside the schoolroom which serves as the President's Rapid City executive office runs a corridor. In the corridor is a bench on which sit those awaiting a presidential audience. On the bench one morning last week sat a Wyoming dirt farmer, his wife, his daughter. From ten o'clock until noon they sat, patient, vigilant. On the stroke of twelve the President came out of the office, bowed to the trio, passed on. Called the farmer to a nearby Secret Service man: "Is that the President? 'Well, come on, Mandy; now we can say we seen...