Word: waggaman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these words, spoken this week by Court Crier Thomas Waggaman, about 250 reporters, lawyers and spectators in the resplendent marble-pillared courtroom of the Supreme Court in Washington, D. C. rose to their feet. At the same instant, the nine Justices who had been awaiting the cue for their entrance, filed through three apertures in the white curtains at the end of the room, took their places behind the 30-ft. mahogany bench with celerity belying their years (51 to 81). Almost before the crowd had seated itself a summary of the day's first decision was being read...
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