Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Courtroom, Pittsburgh, Feb. 20--The long-hidden personal wealth of Andrew W. Mellon was revealed today as more than $97,000,000 (M), not including the other millions which he holds in such huge corporations as the Aluminum Company of America and the Gulf Refining Company...
...This is going to be no hippodrome," announced Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo of the New York State Supreme Court, when Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee and his estranged wife Fay Webb Vallee appeared in the Justice's Manhattan courtroom. Crooner Vallee & wife were there to settle a three-year legal wrangle, determine whether Mrs. Vallee's weekly allowance should be upped. Chief issues: 1) What is Rudy's income? 2) Was Rudy unfaithful to Fay? 3) Was Fay unfaithful to Rudy...
...pointed out that the Reverend's outbreak was more than an isolated incident, worthy of special note. In murder trial after murder trial, all over the land, courthouses have been swarmed with people who have no business there. Flemington was not unusual. In a French-revolution air, the courtroom was suffocated with people eating, people chewing, people drinking ginger ale from quart battles, people demonstrating in every conceivable fashion their contempt for the court. Mr. McDonald recalls an eminent alienist's examination of a row of 12 women at the Loeb-Leopold trial; only...
...judge must have been the only person connected with the trial who did not suspect that the camera was turning whenever an important witness was on the stand. Among newsmen, who could hear the motor being started and stopped by remote control, it was an open secret. A courtroom guard was stationed hardly a dozen feet from the camera. Counsel for both sides could easily have been aware that their examination of Col. Lindbergh, Mrs. Lindbergh, Dr. Condon and Defendant Hauptmann was being recorded for history. It was generally understood that the films would be released the instant the trial...
...News and Hearst's Journal tried to catch up by splashing still shots from the films over several pages. Genuinely shocked and grieved by what he considered a violation of a gentlemen's agreement, Judge Trenchard ousted not only newsreels but also unoffending newspaper photographers from the courtroom, ordered deputies to arrest on sight any person caught with a camera in the room...