Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the smoke of battle cleared away, Mr. Roosevelt's formal defeat had been accompanied by the retirement of arch-conservative Mr. Justice Van Devanter. And no matter how much his former Ku Klux Klan membership belies any innate liberalism, Mr. Justice Black, who was given the vacant chair, is a bona fide New Dealer and may be expected to vote with the liberal wing, as he did this week. Thus in the 1937-38 term, the liberals will have, if not a working majority, at least the Court's strongest minority, and, paradoxically for Mr. Roosevelt...
Supreme Court convention places the most recent appointee to the bench at the chair farthest to the left of the Chief Justice, who sits in the middle. Since 1916, Justice Brandeis' old bronze reading lamp has gradually moved closer to the centre. Now the oldest Justice on the Court, he sits on the left hand of snowy-bearded Charles Evans Hughes, who Brandeis privately tells friends is the best Chief Justice he has known. Since 1916, nothing closer to a further questioning of Justice Brandeis' fitness as a member of the Court has occurred than the President...
Sterling Professor of English Literature At Yale, Tinker succeeds Johnny A. E. Roosval, of the University of Stockholm, in the chair established in 1925 by Charles C. Stillman '38 in memory of Charles Eliot Norton 1846, professor of the History...
Terms of the Chair, endowed by a fund of $100,000, state that "the incumbent is appointed as a full professor for a term of one year" and that he be "chosen without limits of nationality from men of high distinction and preferably, of international reputation...
...Manhattan's 60 Wall Tower for their monthly meeting and annual election of officers. Scholarly President Fairfax Harrison walked in and sat down in the slot of a huge old semicircular, yellow pine dispatcher's table. The minutes read. Mr. Harrison rose and, instead of passing the chair to someone else while his name was put in nomination (as he had done for a quarter of a century), he quietly announced to the board that he wished to retire. Having served the Southern since he joined it in 1896 as a solicitor, Mr. Harrison nominated to succeed himself...