Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First problem was the courtroom's seating capacity. Solution: Carpenters banged and hammered, put up a six-tier bleacher, collected $417. Cross-pieces of white pine, at 16-inch intervals, marked off the benches into 86 numbered seats. Each prisoner had a number corresponding to his seat so that a roll could be called and absentees quickly detected. Lawyers for the defendants vainly objected to the cramped quarters of their charges...
...handsome crier is named Thomas E. Waggaman. His admonishment, uttered after the Justices are seated, has been preceded by the flash of a light over the courtroom's side door. He has banged his gavel for all present to rise as the Justices march in. Now all may sit, at Crier Waggaman's next gavel-bang, and Justice takes its course...
...courtroom was packed with a hand-picked Fascist audience. Sitting dully in the iron-barred prisoner's cage, a white-gloved carabineer on either side of him, Cesare Rossi listened while Prosecutor Michele Isgro came quickly to the following peroration...
...seating 350 students and the other 200, give the school the additional classroom space which it has needed for a great while. The larger of these rooms is built in the form of an amphitheatre and can be used for some of the trials. But it is the new Courtroom where most of the important trials will be conducted by the undergraduates...
...This Courtroom, in which the dedication is being held today, is modelled after the style of the old English Courts at Westminster, with seats for counsel inside the bar on the sides and at right angles to the judges' bench as well as before the bench. It is probably one of the finest court, rooms in the country. Its acoustics are remarkable, for an acousticon ceiling enables the counsel, standing with back to the audience, to be heard in any part of the large room...