Word: court
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Percenter. In Mandan, N. Dak., the court dropped a charge of impersonating a federal officer when the defendant explained that, to him, FBI after his name meant full-blooded Indian...
...Court pleases," Isserman persisted, "my observation was that the jury did not read. They riffled the pages. I would like to note it is now 10:55 and the jury had the documents before them a short period . . ." On & on Isserman went, until the judge said heatedly: "You have stated your objection . . . Now sit down...
...appeal. Medina occasionally reddened with wrath as they darted in at him: Isserman with his soft bay; Gladstein with his air of righteous plausibility turning to outraged innocence when the judge caught him laying a legal trap; Harry Sacher, the little man with the bull voice, chivying the Court, then smiling impishly, eyes cast down, while the judge mildly upbraided him; Dennis rushing in occasionally to make a choked, impassioned speech...
...Paris weekly Les Lettres Françaises, which had charged that he never wrote I Chose Freedom and that it was full of lies anyway. Victor sued for three million francs ($10,000). After weeks of lurid courtroom charges and countercharges, the judge ordered the weekly to pay the court a 15,000-franc ($50) fine, pay Kravchenko 150,000 francs ($500) damages, and print the court decision on its front page...
Pints & Pints. In Beverly Hills, Calif., Joseph E. Maranghi, charged with drunkenness, told the court that he had celebrated his release from jail on a similar charge by selling a pint of his blood, buying booze with the proceeds. Cause & Effect. In Astoria, N.Y., Walter Stanger, whose two small runaway sons had just been picked up by police for the sixth time, complained: "It's you cops. You give the boys so much ... ice cream and candy...