Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...testify that once he had been afraid to fight, had paid to be let off. Old Champion Dempsey's reputation for ferocious pugnacity remained unblemished. But as proprietor of big, flashy Jack Dempsey's Restaurant, across the street from Madison Square Garden, he had, according to the courtroom story of a State prosecutor, encountered an enemy more formidable than any Firpo or Tunney. It had appeared in the persons of hard-faced men who accosted him, snarled that it would be "healthier" for his restaurant if he joined their "association." A healthy restaurant, Proprietor Dempsey knew...
Brilliant, likable, a courtroom virtuoso, he had built up a prosperous practice by the time Governor Lehman's call came, and he hated to give it up. But as Assistant...
...purpose of making money for a crew of cold-blooded organizers, and its own mob activities of night raids, arson, beatings and finally murder. When fear of the police has forced. Taylor to kill his best friend, the picture comes to a climax in a courtroom sequence which achieves a new high for judicial severity on the screen. Good shot: A radio dramatization of Taylor's arrest handled by Director Archie Mayo so that it becomes at once an effective story device and a parody on The March of Time...
Speaking before a capacity audience in Langdell Hall Courtroom, Joseph B. Eastman, Interstate Commerce Commissioner and former Federal Coordinator of Transportation, declared that "he would rather work for Uncle Sam than anybody else." In the main, his talk dealt with the functions of the I.C.C., and included a defense of public agencies and servants...
Joseph B. Eastman, member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and formerly Federal Coordinator of Transportation, will speak in the Langdell Hall Courtroom this Thursday at 8 o'clock, it was announced yesterday...