Word: court
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeal was heard in a cell to give Assassin Toral every protection from a howling mob outside the jail which wanted to lynch him. At the expiration of the hearing, the three Supreme Court Judges majestically departed giving no indication of whether or not they would permit Toral's case to be retried...
...Lord Chief Justice of _ England, Baron Hewart, heard last week in London the appeal of one Chung Yi-miao, a Chinese law student whom a lower English court had sentenced to hang for murdering his Chinese wife, also a young student...
...Manhattan, Michael ("Sure-Seater") Mindlin opened a theatre (Little Carnegie Playhouse) with a card & chess room, with free coffee & Marlborough cigarets, permission to smoke, walls decorated in modernistic colors, girl-ushers selected for their beauty, a dance room and a ping-pong court with three tiers of upholstered seats for spectators. There is no sound device...
...book entitled Jews Are Like That young Wise discussed Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis of the U. S. Supreme Court, Nathan Straus, philanthropist, and seven others, including his father. Of Rabbi Wise, young Wise wrote...
...right of the presbytery so to reject a pastor was denied by decisions in the courts. The matter was taken to the House of Lords, the Queen, the House of Commons. All sustained the court decisions...