Word: courtroom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Arrested on charges of grand larceny and brought to trial in a Chicago courtroom last week, Defendant Rockwood sat sheepishly silent as Prosecutor C. Vernon Thompson described his unique activities. Until his business slumped last summer, 43-year-old Mr. Rockwood, father of six children, had been a highly respectable wrecking contractor. Hard times set him to stealing and his regular crew asked no questions when he sent them, to dismantle the Diener factory. After moving out safes, typewriters, files and adding machines from the office and $30,000 worth of machinery from the plant, they proceeded on Mr. Rockwood...
...these words, spoken this week by Court Crier Thomas Waggaman, about 250 reporters, lawyers and spectators in the resplendent marble-pillared courtroom of the Supreme Court in Washington, D. C. rose to their feet. At the same instant, the nine Justices who had been awaiting the cue for their entrance, filed through three apertures in the white curtains at the end of the room, took their places behind the 30-ft. mahogany bench with celerity belying their years (51 to 81). Almost before the crowd had seated itself a summary of the day's first decision was being read...
...level with Felix Reisenberg's East Side, West Side, leading best-seller of its kind, a number of levels below John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer. Clearly marked for commercial success, this Rice pudding is seasoned with everything that ever came out of Author Rice's cupboard: courtroom atmosphere (On Trial, Counsellor-at-Law), social indignation (We, the People), personal pique (letters to the New York Times), alternately satirical and glamorous treatment of artists, writers and the theatre (The Left Bank), human interest, melodramatic enthusiasm for New York generally. In fact, about the only ingredient the book lacks...
...Santa Barbara, Calif, courtroom last Thursday Judge Fred T. Harsh glanced sharply at a young man arraigned before him for speeding, twinkled, ruled: "I'm fining you $10-or two touchdowns against Redlands." Next night Halfback Howard Yeager of Santa Barbara State College worked off his fine by plunging 12 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter, pulling down a 21-yd. pass behind the goal line for another in the second quarter. Final score: Santa Barbara 31, Redlands...
Sitting on the bench in the stuffy courtroom last week was Judge Patrick Thomas Stone, 48, regular presiding justice for the district. Appointed by President Roosevelt in 1933, he is softspoken, dignified, erect, has a reputation for scrupulous fairness. That he would tolerate no undue fuss and delay became apparent when he succeeded in getting a jury chosen on the first day, instead of allowing the week that had been estimated would be necessary. His sternness was also apparent in the first skirmish of the trial, when Prosecutor Hammond Edward Chaffetz, 30, who has been with the Department of Justice...