Word: benching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than one of mere personality. Mr. Dooley was just being Mr. Dooley when he said that the court follows the election returns, but in a far broader sense the court does change with the political climate. When Earl Warren stepped up to the nation's highest bench, Stalinist aggression had produced a violent, often excessive U.S. reaction, most sharply expressed in the face and form of Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy. Now McCarthy is dead, having outlived his ism, and the face of Nikita Khrushchev beams from U.S. television screens. Previous Supreme Courts had upheld security laws...
...elected California's governor three times with labor as well as business support, was a good, if plodding administrator, endeared himself to the faculty of the University of California by standing firm against loyalty oaths for teachers. Hearty, outgoing, hard-working Baptist Warren never before sat on the bench, is rated still short on substantive approach to law, long on sweeping liberal judgments...
Hugo La Fayette Black, 71, President Roosevelt's first (and then-furiously opposed) appointee to the bench. Grew up in poverty in Alabama, studied his law at the University of Alabama, built a practice on hard-luck clients, served briefly as police magistrate, entered the Senate in 1927. There he fought hard for New Deal, built a reputation as a relentless Senate investigator of lobbying and trusts, stood solidly on liberal side of the line despite fact that he had, at 37, been member of Ku Klux Klan. In the court Baptist Black was a novice in constitutional...
...Columbia, brilliantly at Yale. A born rebel, became chairman of Securities and Exchange Commission in 1937, thereupon unleashed, in his own word, "sulphurous" attack on Wall Street. Although he had never been a judge, Roosevelt appointed him to the court on the retirement of Louis Brandeis. On the bench, pencil behind ear, hair awry, Presbyterian Douglas became a dauntless proponent of labor, civil rights, wrote armloads of decisions. Holding fast to his basic position on the left, he became, with Black, the court's leading dissenter...
...until young Von was through whistling his fast one past the Dodgers did another Cardinal pitcher stop squirming on the bench. "Boy,'' gasped Von's big brother, Lyndall McDaniel, 21, "I never sweat like that when I'm pitching. Those were two long hours...