Word: court
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fletcher was a victim of Rumor. When he personally conducted President-Elect Hoover down, across and around South America, Rumor chose him to be Secretary of State. When the No. 1 Cabinet job went to Henry Lewis Stimson, Rumor made Mr. Fletcher Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, largely because he had served 27 years as a career diplomat. After Charles Gates Dawes was chosen, Mr. Fletcher resigned. Rumor picked him up again and made him a candidate for the U. S. Senate, seeking the Pennsylvania seat not yet occupied by Senator-suspect Vare...
...bench of the Gaston County (N. C.) Superior Court last week sat a tall, clean-cut, smooth-faced man of 41. He was Judge Morris Victor Barnhill, the State's youngest judge, sent into the county by Governor Oliver Max Gardner to try an extraordinary case. Before him were 13 men, three women. Laughing, smiling, they looked more like college boys and girls than the Communistic strike leaders they were. They were charged with murder and conspiracy...
...legal duty was to send as many of the defendants as possible to the electric chair. Outside the railing sat some 200 spectators, mostly mill workers in their shirt sleeves, women with babes-in-arms, students from the University of North Carolina. The thermometer stood at 90�. Informal was court procedure. Said Judge Barnhill: "We're not much on ceremony in North Carolina but we do manage to get dignity...
...ogre dripping gore. Judicious, big-minded, he smiled tolerantly at this libel on his integrity by friends of the defense?and 20 minutes later granted the defense's request for a change of venue. Fortunate were the defendants that somebody was not punished for contempt of court. The case was moved to Charlotte in Mecklenburg County where before Judge Barnhill it will be called Aug. 26. The defendants breathed easier while their lawyers joined hands, danced about, shouted: "We have won the first encounter and the enemy is ours...
Harry Manning, first officer of the S.S. America, hero of the rescue of the crew of the S.S. Florida last winter, appeared in a New York City court to testify that a friend arrested for speeding had been hurrying him to the hospital. When the friend was fined Hero Manning remarked: "Five months ago Mayor Walker gave me the keys to the City of New York. But I guess they are no good here...