Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shek to order Editor Tu Chung-yuan of New Life punished to the extreme limit of Chinese law in cases of defamation. In Shanghai last week these Japanese orders were carried out by a cringing panel of Chinese judges, scared to death because 200 Chinese students pack-jammed their courtroom, shrieking "There is no justice in China! Death to our judges! Down with Japanese Imperialism! Long live Chinese Communism...
...produced the alibi that he was not in Shanghai when New Life prepared its gossip about Emperors and had not authorized the piece. Associate Editor Yih Sui, presumably responsible, was shown to have escaped to a place unknown. Thereupon, as a trim Japanese officer watched grimly in the courtroom, Editor Tu received the maximum sentence of 14 months in jail at hard labor...
Fortnight ago in a stifling Manhattan courtroom the fight began in earnest. The Government described ASCAP as a gigantic music trust, unreasonably suppressing free competition in interstate commerce. Prosecutor Andrew W. Bennett made ASCAP seem exceedingly high-handed by showing that its general 5% license fee preyed even upon non-musical programs, that ASCAP collected 5?out of every $1 that broadcasters received for Father Coughlin's preachings. "Oppressive" again was the way the Society charged an electrical transcription fee ranging from 25? to 50? for each broadcast of a record. ASCAP's defense was that...
...justified the predictions of those who foresaw that the fate of the New Deal depended more on nine old men in black than on the 531 members of Congress (TIME, Nov. 26). When the nine Justices folded their black robes about them and marched out of their dark semicircular courtroom last week, a long and important chapter in Supreme Court history had come...
Noel Charles Scaffa, most famed of U. S. private detectives, specializes not in catching crooks but in retrieving the things they steal. Last week his specialty landed him, a handcuffed prisoner, in a Federal courtroom in Manhattan and in the thick of Federal racket charges...