Word: judgeships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly thereafter Judge Hirsch marries his mistress, Gretel, who has been living with the Hirsch family. "Mother does not speak to Gretel." Meyer's political career is ended by the scandal. But he clings to the judgeship and he lives in "Allright-niks Row, Riverside Drive. . . . The Ghetto called anyone who was well off-one who is all right in this world, that is, well fixed- allrightniks." Meyer is well fixed-a great beast of a man. "Haunch, paunch and jowl" his enemies had called him. It pierced his hide a little, that name. He remembered it in critical...
...opening of a bye-election in the Warwick and Leamington division. There were three candidates: Labor, the Countess of Warwick; Liberal, George Nicholls, farm worker; Conservative, Captain Anthony Eden, soon to become related by marriage to the Countess of Warwick. The vacancy occurred by the elevation to a judgeship of Sir Ernest Pollock...
...important fact that the foremost of American international lawyers has accepted a judgeship on the Court and is now sitting at The Hague. He has participated in all four of the opinions which the Court has handed down, and he has been in the concurring majority in each case. The Court is now hearing a dispute about the Kiel canal, and it has handed down an opinion about the nationality laws of Tunis and Morocco within the last month...