Word: benching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declined to contribute to Democratic campaign funds (as he had previously done), holding that the members of the Court must never touch politics. When his own daughter came to plead before the Court there was no precedent, no regulation covering the contingency, but he voluntarily retired from the bench and did not sit on the case. Chief Justice Fuller, Confederate veteran, the only Roman Catholic Chief Justice, used to remark that he had jurisdiction over the entire U. S. except the Fuller home and family. Justice Brandeis doubtless feels in much the same...
...Chicago, Judge Thomas W. Slick sits on the bench sifting the chaff which is all there is left from the winnowing of ambitions and aspirations of five years ago. Before him last week was a case, Procter v. Sprague, a suit to recover $50,000, a part of the $1,750,- 000 that went glimmering with the hopes of both gentlemen in that great year of glimmerings...
...appended verdict upon collegiate football handed down from the editorial bench of "Judge" is a highly significant expression of the reaction of mature minds against the overemphasis which is now being placed upon football in the colleges of the country. The CRIMSON does not support His Honor in urging the substitution of some other "form of intellectual exercises for football." But it readily understands how such opinions can be entertained by elder men who are dismayed and disgusted at the spectacle of the million dollar stadium, the ten-thousand dollar coach and the burly athlete throwing into complete eclipse...
...Lloyd George as he read the comment on his speech, "to be taken seriously," "a new, vitalizing and challenging idea," perhaps he dreamed a little of homing, coming to the Government bench in the House?until his eye ran on "obsolete policy." "raises the spectre of agrarian strife," "a mere bundle of details...
...King laughed. A peasant woman shoved a bench towards him. He sat down. The bridegroom called loudly for the innkeeper...