Word: court
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...possibility of a maximum of seven years' imprisonment, then deportation, In its previous attempts to deport Bridges, in 1939 and 1941, the Government cited Bridges' ties with Communist-front organizations, and produced witnesses who said they had heard him admit to being a Communist. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1945 ruled the evidence insufficient...
Eisler had been convicted in Washington in 1947 for swearing to false statements on a passport application. He had appealed from this verdict and was awaiting a Supreme Court decision when he jumped his $23,500 bail and boarded the Batory. The U.S., in asking Britain to extradite him, said that Eisler had been convicted of perjury, a crime specifically covered in the Anglo-U.S. Treaty of Extradition. Eisler's British lawyer contended that the treaty did not cover Eisler's conviction because in British law a false oath is not perjury unless it is taken...
Roundly cheered by a mob of Communists and fellow travelers in London, Gerhart Eisler said he would proceed to the Russian zone of Germany and take a teaching post at Leipzig. Although jubilant, the little man seemed somewhat puzzled by his release. In his Red dream world, the British court which ruled on his case should have functioned as a docile tool of U.S. imperialist terror. Said Eisler, whimsically: "I ain't no mastermind, but I'm an average good Communist. I try to be a better Communist every...
...postwar Germany, where no planes are being built (because the occupation powers forbid it), Willy Messerschmitt, after a denazification court fined him $200 and let him go, might have become a pathetic relic of the war. He was made of sterner stuff. Wherever he looked, the crying need was for more houses. Whole sections of Diisseldorf, Cologne and Nurnberg lay in rubble, and every day more refugees from the East poured in to swamp West Germany's already jam-packed buildings. Frankfurt alone this year hopes to put up 100,000 dwelling units. Quietly Willy Messerschmitt went to work...
...Court). Also, as a onetime director of Alpha Cement Ltd., he knew that business inside...