Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courtroom crowd turned toward Abrams, who had been pinching his tubes on a tin pan turned upside down. He held up a cream-colored icing on which were 32 peach-colored sweetpea blossoms, four bright pink Premier roses and five Sweetheart roses, whose pink faded delicately to white in the centre. "It's not really finished," he said, "but it's good enough to win." Three pastry experts and Judge Jonas agreed that...
...eighth time in public how Patterson and the other Negroes had chased off her white "boyfriends" and raped her in the freight car-a tale long since repudiated by Ruby Bates, the other alleged victim of the attack. When the State rested it was after 5 p. m. The courtroom was fetid. The defense had no witnesses on hand except Defendant Patterson, whom it did not want to call at that time. Nevertheless, Judge Callahan peremptorily ordered that the trial continue, that Patterson take the stand...
...realized that with the New Year there would be a real need for Mr. Potter's services, was not revealed. But the day when the Court met for the first time in 1936 was a busy one for Mr. Potter and the press room. That afternoon in the courtroom upstairs after Mr. Justice Cardozo had read a minor decision...
...textile mill regarding the cotton processing tax (TIME, Dec. 23 et ante). In slow precise tones, seldom consulting the written opinion that lay before him, Mr. Justice Roberts proceeded to outline the law and the nature of the case. For some minutes none of the hearers in the crowded courtroom knew which way the decision would go. Gradually the general tenor of the argument became adverse. Then came the words: "The tax, the appropriation of the funds raised, the direction for their disbursement are but part of the plan. They are but means to an unconstitutional...
Spectacled Defendant Barrett had to be wheeled into the Federal courtroom to hear sentence passed. In addition to the loss of one eye. shot out by his brother-in-law. Barrett was crippled in the knees by a volley of slugs fired by the Government agents in the West College Corner affray. Ordering the prisoner to be hanged at the Marion County Jail next March, U. S. District Judge Robert C. Baltzell concluded: "May I add personally that I hope and pray that God will be merciful unto...