Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon as it becomes apparent that Evelyn Prentice has a plot, seasoned cinemaddicts will easily guess the rest. The fact that the blackmailing poet keeps a revolver and a diary in his desk clearly indicates a murder to come. That John Prentice is a crack lawyer suggests a courtroom scene in which he will extricate his wife from difficulties. A squeaking little Prentice (Cora Sue Collins) guarantees that her parents will be estranged and reconciled. Although Evelyn Prentice is far from being an experiment, in either art or advertising, its conventional coils are expertly twisted and untwisted. For the most...
...courtroom in the pleasant Swiss city of Berne last week a world-wide idea went on trial. The idea; Jewry has long been plotting to overthrow all governments and replace them with a vast and tyrannical Jewish super-government...
Compilation, How the Protocols were compiled from such sources was amply described last week not only in the Berne courtroom but also in the American Hebrew by various writers including Princess Catherine Radziwill. Reason for compiling anything at all lay in the fact that in the years preceding the Russian revolution of 1905. the Russian Conservatives were badly in need of a red herring to drag before credulous Tsar Nicholas. With Liberals demanding reforms, the Conservatives could forestall them by picturing Russia's restlessness as result of a great Jewish conspiracy...
...broken, white-haired old man staggered into the Chicago federal courtroom the other day to take his stand in defense of charges to use the mails to defraud in the $100,000,000 sale of stocks of the Corporation Securities Company of Chicago. Mr. Insull's excuse for the greatest of all exploitations of the American people is that he was following the "general attitude" of big business in 1930, backed by the statement of President Hoover that business in America was on a sound and prosperous basis. He further explains that he was doing no more in expanding than...
Into the awe-struck silence of the courtroom spoke Coroner Sir Samuel Brighouse last week: "Bloor has openly, and I think very openly, admitted that it was through an error on his part that the unfortunate occurrence took place. I think that Bloor was carrying out his duties as faithfully and honestly and as well as he could. If you believe that you will return a verdict of Misadventure...