Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This weekend there will be four sessions, two on Saturday and two on Sunday. To stimulate discussion of the subject on hand a novel procedure will be used. On Saturday morning the pros and cons of Unemployment Compensation will be argued from briefs as in a courtroom, with an hour allotted to each side. In the afternoon sessions these arguments will be discussed by all members of the group and an endeavor will be made to reach a definite decision...
...wear his girdle, scarf, tippet, beaver hat, full-bottomed wig, ermine-trimmed hood & mantle on State occasions or when attending St. Paul's Cathedral. He must never wear his scarlet robe before Their Majesties the King & Queen. Yet he must mark the 24 Red Letter Days when for courtroom appearance he changes from his usual black robe to the scarlet. One day last week Sir Cyril handed down his most publicized decision since he mounted the King's Bench in 1933-a five-hour opinion on U. S. businessmen and U. S. business methods...
Used as Paris newsmen are to such courtroom petulance, they seriously reported that "a real disturbance" seemed imminent before the 50 maitres were accommodated to their satisfaction in Justice's Palace. Twenty months ago two French Cabinets were unseated in succession by the Stavisky Scandal; the riots in the Place de la Concorde on Feb. 6, 1934 were the bloodiest in 63 years; and the present trial of Stavisky accomplices bristles with political dynamite. Since most Frenchmen believe that Swindler Stavisky did not commit suicide but was shot by agents of the State detective force to shield...
...British general election it is the cherished privilege of His Majesty's Government and the members of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition to rave like opposing lawyers who afterward resume their friendship outside the courtroom. The secret of British enmity is that at bottom it is nearly always friendly. No member of the Nazi Cabinet at Berlin need have taken serious offense last week merely because in the House of Commons the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill peered over his spectacles and said several startling things which happened to be true...
...Merchant of Venice, which toured the U. S. in 1931, never reached Broadway. The American: "Miss Adams was at ease in her new role, smiling frequently and injecting bits of unexpected comedy into her lines." Witness Adams testified all day "in a clear, modulated voice heard throughout the courtroom," exchanged more bows with judge and jury, made her exit. Four days later the jury, unmoved by Miss Adams' performance, awarded the suing promoter, one John D. Williams...