Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...losses which he claimed in his 1931 tax return (TIME, March 4). All facts & figures came from Mr. Mellon's longtime private secretary, Howard M. Johnson, a frail, grey little man seated pale and trembling behind a stack of ledgers and account books. In the handsome, high-ceilinged courtroom, with only a scattering of typical courtroom loungers looking on, Mr. Mellon sat each day at the counsel table beside Lawyer Hogan. Mostly he seemed bored and restless, glancing often at his chainless watch, appearing to doze off in the late afternoons. Once a young bailiff caught him smoking...
Things went harder with the Renown's commander, Captain Sawbridge. When he returned to the courtroom his sword point lay toward him. "Do you wish to make any statement seeking to mitigate punishment?" asked the Court...
...year-old Negro girl had been taken by her mother to live in a Divine "Heaven" in Harlem. Justice Panken sent the child to live with a sister, sent the mother to Bellevue Hospital after she put on a typical Divinery. Writhing, gesticulating, the woman fell to the courtroom floor screaming: "Father Divine...
Ostensible purpose of the Board of Tax Appeals hearings which began last week in a courtroom of Pittsburgh's new Federal Building was to determine whether Andrew William Mellon owed the Government $3,075,103 in back income taxes & penalty, or whether the Government owed the onetime (1921-32) Secretary of the Treasury a $139,045 refund. But in effect it was a trial of two great reputations at the bar of public opinion. One reputation seemed bound to emerge incalculably damaged. Mr. Mellon, as an Old Deal statesman, stood to be convicted of a deliberate, contemptible attempt...
Even when the foreman uttered the words that meant "electric chair," the courtroom doors were not unlocked. Every newshawk in the room was prepared for that emergency. A reporter down in front raised a red handkerchief, and a messenger at the rear door shoved a red slip of paper through the sill. One newshawk, poised to hurl colored iron balls through the window pane, was thwarted by lowered window blinds. Nerviest of all was Reporter Francis Toughill of the Philadelphia Record, who boldly scraped the insulation off the courtroom telephone wire, hooked in a telephone headset. Crouched in the balcony...