Word: court
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of becoming President, Herbert Burgman, a bald, frail, unimpressive little man, became the most thoroughly indicted traitor in U.S. history (69 counts of treason). On trial in Washington's U.S. District Court, he tried to save himself with a plea of insanity...
...unaware that the game was over; he was still shouting his defiance at the empty stands. Replying to the public reprimand administered to him by Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Forrest Sherman, Airman Crommelin was as truculent as ever. He wanted the reprimand expunged from his record, or a court-martial where he would have a chance to explain why he had released confidential Navy correspondence to the press, thereby setting off last month's revolt of the admirals...
Benjamin F. Tilley, charged with being an accessory after the fact to the $50,000 Coop robbery in January 1948, was found not guilty in Middlesex Superior Court yesterday on a directed verdict by Judge Vincent Brogna...
...students who tried to steal a Marine recruiting sign from in front of the Wellesley post office were charged with drunkenness and larceny of government property yesterday morning in a Wellesley court...
Several of last year's fast freshmen figured importantly in Shepard's attack, with Gerry Murphy and Bill Hickey cutting in frequently to set up plays or to take quick lay-ups. Other sophomores who should see a lot of court action are Jim Downey and Jim Stevenson, both of whom fit nicely with Shepard's fast ball philosophy...