Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deputies insisted that the Crempas had come out shooting, that they had fired only in self-defense. After three hours' deliberation, the jury returned with a verdict for the deputies. John Crempa had already left the courtroom, saying, "I am going away from this murderous State. I would rather live in a jungle...
...From one or two," muttered the witness. Even Nazis in the courtroom tittered at this sidelight on Nazi police methods...
While the U. S. was waiting last week for the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court to make up their minds about TVA, workmen draped the elaborate Italian ceiling of the 64-ft. square courtroom with a cheap canvas screen. Also last week in Manhattan a onetime partner of the architect responsible for that classic pile across the plaza from the Capitol sued the architect's son and daughter for a sum estimated at a quarter of a million dollars...
Still anxious to please Mrs. Taft, Architect Gilbert designed a courtroom that to the casual visitor is one of the most impressive chambers in the U. S. A row of Ionic columns surrounds it. Bronze and steel grilles shut off the wing corridors. A handsome sculptured frieze surrounds the walls. The bench itself is a chaste and dignified bar of polished mahogany...
...decided that the ceiling, gilded, carved and painted at great expense, was too dark. So last week a white canvas frame was stretched over it. During the summer the ceiling will be repainted and by next autumn Architect Gilbert's son and successor may have produced a courtroom in which the New Deal's severest critics will feel more at home...