Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hunterdon County Courthouse, Flemington, N. J., Jan. 17-Bruno Richard Hauptmann, his nerves rubbed raw by a fortnight of accusation, sprang from his chair in the courtroom today and shouted "Liar!" at an agent of the United States Government...
Suddenly Prosecutor Wilentz electrified the courtroom with news that was to many indeed new: "Hauptmann . . . has got this ladder right around his neck. . . . One rung of that ladder, one side of that ladder comes right from his attic, put on there with his tools, and we will prove it to you! . . . We demand the penalty of murder in the first degree...
...Pending the Government's courtroom audit of the ransom bills, the defense line is unpredictable...
...chauffeur, Nora lasigi Bullitt, pretty debutante daughter of onetime (1912-13) U. S. Solicitor-General William Marshall Builitt, was brought up short by a traffic policeman, led off to police court. There the policeman announced that she had been passing intersections at 65 m.p.h. In the empty courtroom Miss Bullitt and friend puffed cigarets, ground the butts into the floor, kept on puffing and grinding until the judge came. Quickly the judge hammered out a fine of $10 plus $11.31 costs. "And now, Miss Bullitt," said he, offering her a long-handled brush, "you may sweep up the courtroom." Debutante...
...Presbyterian Fundamentalists chased Dr. Fosdick out of their church back into his own. Later Presbyterian William Jennings Bryan became the great lay leader of Fundamentalism, carrying his crusade to the little Tennessee mountain town of Dayton. There the Lion of the Lord treated the entire world to a spectacular courtroom battle against Evolution, only to die in his sleep just after a mighty triumph over Schoolteacher John Thomas Scopes...