Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's Crime Commission, "that he is going on the theory that violence is the only law such criminals know. The difficulty with the policy is, however ... it is likely to brutalize the police." In Kansas City, County Prosecutor W. W. Graves Jr. raised the stock objection that courtroom evidence of police brutality usually moves juries to acquit. "No policeman is justified in using brutality simply for brutality." declared Police Commissioner Theodore J. Roche of San Francisco. "It strikes me," declared Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz of Los Angeles, "as a little bit theatrical to stage a strong-arm act every...
...opening bill there were two world premieres for which Ruth Page did all the choreography and danced the leading roles. For Hear Ye! Hear Ye!, a courtroom parody, she wrote her own scenario, had it approved by her lawyer-husband, Thomas Hart Fisher. Composer Aaron Copland wrote smart, satiric music but attention was more on the stage, set as a grim grey courtroom. A cabaret dancer (Ruth Page), a jealous chorus girl and a maniac are all accused of killing Page's dancing partner (Bentley Stone). While masked jurors look on stupidly, the crime is three times re-enacted...
...Federal Judge 25 years ago by William Howard Taft after that fun-loving President received the following telegram from a group of Birmingham lawyers: NORTH ALABAMA IS STARVING FOR JUSTICE STOP FOR GOD'S SAKE GIVE US GRUBB. Now 72, slight, wiry and a Democrat, Judge Grubb runs his courtroom smartly, shames attorneys who waste his time. Born & bred in Cincinnati, he went to Yale with a brother of President Taft. His opinion last week was handed down in denying a TVA motion to dismiss an injunction petition filed by a group of Alabama Power Co. stockholders who are trying...
...Chicago on Oct. 2, after more than two years' preparation, the U. S. Government put Samuel Insull, Samuel Insull Jr., and 15 of their associates on trial for using the mails to defraud. In the courtroom a 22-ft. bookcase held two tons of Government exhibits. Two hundred Government witnesses were summoned. Two million words of testimony were taken in the two-month trial. After the first two weeks the jury had pretty well made up its mind. And last week the trial ended. For two hours and two minutes the jurymen deliberated, and then, filing back into...
...Morgan had peeked on Prince Gottfried zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg lying on a bed with Mrs. Vanderbilt. The maid said she had seen Mrs. Vanderbilt and the Marchioness of Milford Haven doing "something very funny." At that, Justice Carew was so shocked that he slammed closed the doors of his courtroom to Press and public...