Word: benches
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Federal judiciary. Scion of the rich O N T thread* family, he was born in Newark, learned law at Harvard, served in the A. E. F. He lives quietly in Princeton, has not taken a drink since Prohibition became law. In 1925 President Coolidge appointed him to the bench after the Anti-Saloon League's late great Wayne Bidwell Wheeler had indorsed him as a thoroughgoing Dry. A natural scholar, he assembled years of reading and research in his decision. Thirty-three of his decisions have been carried to higher courts; only three have been reversed. Appeal. Attorney General...
...Business at large. Next most ticklish is picking an Attorney General and on this Presidents invariably consult the American Bar Association. Secretary of State is of less definite, more external importance, causing a President to calculate how his Administration will be regarded by other nations. Then, having suited Capital, Bench & Bar, and the World at Large, and even before choosing his Postmaster General (political patronage man), the President must think of Labor. Always a wise President tries to please Labor's main organized body, the American Federation of Labor (some 3,000,000 votes...
With ash trays at their elbows the Supreme Court judges smoked incessantly, seemed frankly bored. Their President Comrade Alexy Vyshinsky, also presided at the Schakhta Trial. Two of the judges had come to the Supreme Court Bench directly from their workbenches in a Moscow and a Leningrad factory...
...they looked down upon the Tsarist Court, the huge pillars of the "Hall of Columns" stood last week like a double row of sentinels guarding the Red Court. The vast oblong hall was draped and festooned in Red. At a Red desk on the right of the Supreme Court Bench sat Nikolai Vassilievitch Krylenko. dreaded prosecutor, famed for his sneer. He seemed a bit plumper but no less tense and tigerish than at the famed Schakhta Trial two years ago when he sent five counter-revolutionaries to Death (TIME. July...
...John Simon, president of the Board of Inquiry, directed Inspector McWade to a great model of the R-IOI which hung from a scaffold beside his bench like an effigy dangling from a gallows, there fired questions for the witness to answer tangibly...