Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That $40,000 of the supposed bribe in Liberty bonds was traced to Mr. Daugherty's account in his brother's bank at Washington Court House, Ohio. Now into the drama of the courtroom, where Truth is supposed to be unveiled, where Justice dangles her scales, have entered a bevy of lawyers. Among them...
...Steuer, defense attorney for Mr. Daugherty, is the most dramatic courtroom lawyer in Manhattan. Like a skilled actor in a play, he allows each trial to shape his emotions; then he turns about, leads the jurors to his viewpoint as deftly as a Hampden or a Barrymore leads his audience. Mr. Steuer† once advised young lawyers...
...crowd of irate Germans brandishing 1,000 mark pre-War banknotes, surged into a Berlin courtroom last week, howled that Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the German Reichsbank is a swindler...
Meanwhile, in Illinois, primary slush oozed over the $1,000,000 mark, finally stopped dripping- chiefly because Voltaire-tongued Investigator-Senator James A. Reed had left for his Kansas City home, not to do any more prodding until October. Ten days in a Chicago courtroom had taught Mr. Reed (a reader of Rabelais) many things: he saw the tortuous workings of Illinois political machines, he was given an object lesson in munificence by public utility potentates (TIME, Aug. 9), he added a few choice items to his ever-increasing stock of Anti-Saloon League lore, he heard of gunplay...
...illegitimate. Soon, by further dirty work, the same son stood white-faced in a prisoner's dock to receive a murderer's death sentence. The Governess arose, screamed, "And I shall pardon him! It is my right!" Shouts from outside penetrated the wrecked, nerve-shaken courtroom. "Extra! Extra! Governess Fenway impeached!" . . . Her Honor, the Governor, released last week, is a good cinema...