Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have Capitol police open pathways through the crowded corridors to their offices. If there was any doubt that the Court's decision was to be rendered that day it was dispelled 40 minutes before the Court assembled, when Mrs. Brandeis and Mrs. Butler took seats in the Courtroom. The wives of other Justices followed. But the Administration had already guessed that the decision was to come: Secretaries Morgenthau and Hull had a 1 o'clock luncheon appointment at the White House; Mrs. Morgenthau and Mrs. Dern were in the Court before any of the Justices' wives...
...noon precisely the Justices filed into their courtroom filled with tense notables. Unable to get seats, Senators Harrison and Barkley stood with William Green of the A. F. of L. in the centre doorway, listening. At 12:01, as on any other decision day, Chief Justice Hughes began reading the majority opinions. But his voice was far louder than usual, far more dramatic. Lest his audience be held too long on tenterhooks, he summarized the decisions first: Congress' right to abrogate the gold clause in private contracts was upheld; citizens were denied the privilege of suing the Government...
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, manacled between two guards, managed to walk from the Flemington courtroom after the death sentence had been passed on him last week. But as he was being led into his cell his knees gave way. The steelyeyed, German ex-convict crumpled, fell on his face. The guards dragged him to his cot. As he lay there, he broke down for the first time since his indictment last October for willfully killing the Lindbergh baby. "Oh, my God," he sobbed, "I feel awful...
Since the courtroom doors were to be locked during the verdict formalities, the A. P. man in the courtroom carried a brief case containing a short-wave transmitter just powerful enough to flash buzz signals to a telegraph operator upstairs in the courthouse. Locked in his tiny room in the cupola, at 10:29 p. m. the operator heard four sharp buzzes in his earphones, leaped to his key. By A. P. code, four buzzes meant "Guilty-recommendation mercy-life imprisonment." Over the A. P. wires to 1.200 member newspapers and to Press-Radio bureau for broadcast went the flash...
What the A. P. did not know was that among the 400-odd newshawks in the courtroom, each with his own bag of tricks, another had chosen the same device. The New York Daily News man carried a small overnight bag containing a short-wave transmitter. As the jury entered the courtroom, the News man stealthily touched his radio button four times-the News's code signal for jury-entry. That was the signal that flashed from courtroom to cupola to press-rooms and microphones...