Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing, however, the Court could notice without loss of dignity and detachment: Thousands of citizens were trying to wangle the right to sit in the 90 seats of the small Supreme Courtroom on Feb. 4. Therefore on Feb. 2, in an unprecedented manner, the clerk of the Court handed the Press a brief announcement...
Last week there was no school in Pompey Hollow. Pert, pretty Esther De Lee, who used to teach in the little upstate New York hamlet, was staring defiantly across a courtroom in nearby Syracuse. Glowering back at her was James N. Armstrong, Pompey Hollow's lean, sallow school trustee. Every one of Pompey Hollow's twelve schoolchildren was in the courtroom. So too were their parents, their parents' friends, Miss De Lee's friends and Mr. Armstrong's friends...
Cheering, stamping, climbing over desks and chairs, Miss De Lee's partisans packed the Syracuse courtroom so tight for the State hearing on her reinstatement plea that one oldster fainted and Ward Van De Bogart Jr., 7, who once had his lips taped for whispering, fell sound asleep. Star witness was Ward's big brother Edward. "What did your brother do after the plaster was put on his lips?" Edward was asked. "He started studying," replied the witness. Loyal pupils testified that Trustee Armstrong himself had placed the small flag in the coal bin, that they...
Hunterdon Country Courthouse, Flemington, N. J., Feb. 8--The woman who loved Isidor Fisch most--his sister,--came into this courtroom today to try to sponge from his tombstone all stains of suspicion that he committed the Lindbergh crime...
...semicircular little courtroom was crowded with lawyers, Senators, bigwigs, newshawks, as the Supreme Court on four successive days listened to arguments and asked questions about the right of Congress to invalidate "gold clauses" in public and private securities. For years the U. S. Government and most corporations promised to repay lenders their principal and interest "in gold coin of the present standard of weight and fineness." On June 5, 1933 Congress, having authorized the President to suspend the gold standard, forbade the writing of any more gold clauses, declared in effect that all those previously written were legally...