Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four women sat on the jury which heard the case of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Last week in Newark the New Jersey League of Women Voters opened a school for jurors. This week the first all-woman jury ever to sit in Federal Court in Newark took 32 minutes to convict an ex-convict of train robbery...
...last session of Congress and applicable to all Government orders of $10,000 or more, exclusive of transportation, communication or construction contracts. The law requires the bidder to 1) pay prevailing wages, 2) adhere to an eight-hour day, a five-day week, 3) employ no child or convict labor, 4) maintain safe and sanitary working conditions. Most reputable corporations can qualify on all points except hours...
...Supreme Court last week decided a legal case between Kentucky Whip and Collar Co. and Illinois Central Railroad. The company, which makes horse collars and harness with convict labor at Kentucky's Eddyville penitentiary, was seeking legal authority to make the railroad accept 25 shipments of horse collars & harness which it had refused. But the issue at stake was far bigger than it looked. The railroad's refusal was based on the Ashurst-Sumners Act, passed in 1935, forbidding the shipment of convict-made goods into states which forbid its sale...
This week the Nation's newsstands blossomed with 400,000 copies of a picture publication which, in red letters against a blue field, proclaimed itself as Look, The Monthly Picture Magazine. Also on the cover, a convict, Franklin Roosevelt, an actress and an x-ray of a woman's legs fought for attention with a large portrait of Germany's General Goring bottle-feed-ing his lion...
...rainy day by a bandit with tear-gas bombs; the warped, animal hatred of the crowd watching Eddie being taken from the courtroom; the bullfrogs croaking in the pond outside the little inn from which, upon his wedding night, he is tossed out for being an ex-convict; a demonstration of the "electric eye" which detects metal objects upon prison visitors; Eddie and Joan talking through the visitors' grill in the death house; the preparations for a transfusion to save Eddie's life so that he can be electrocuted. For such things and the craftsmanship of Screen Writers...