Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debating Council, the trial will enable students to gain a practical insight into political affairs of the day, and will be conducted in a serious vein. To make the atmosphere more real, the Lowell Common Room will be lighted with special spotlights and arranged so as to resemble a courtroom...
...admit that Master Brown richly deserves his portion, but nevertheless is prone to regard the unsociable defendant, who probably did not fight for the Stars and Bars, with a jaundiced eye. Judge Priest turns the tables in masterful fashion. While the strains of "Dixie" are wafted into the hushed courtroom, the parson, (Henry B. Walthall) comes forward as character witness on behalf of the defendant. The resulting climax will cause Guiseppe Vespucci, of South Boston, to rise tearful from his seat and give the rebel yell...
...morning last week in his chambers on the sixth floor of Chicago's old Federal Court Building. Judge James Herbert Wilkerson initiated the Northern Illinois judicial district into a new custom by donning the first black robes ever to be worn in Chicago. Then he stepped into the courtroom to open case No. 26,900, the United States of America v. Samuel Insull and 16 codefendants. The charge: using the mails to defraud in the selling of $143,000,000 of securities in the Insull-controlled Corporation Securities...
...records may yield but a line of guilt, Attorney Green will be forced to recite the Life of Insull to get at the fraud of Corporation Securities. To help him are 2,500 exhibits, 200 witnesses to identify the exhibits, a freshly made 22-ft. bookcase in the courtroom to hold the exhibits. At the end of last week he was still busy having his mute witnesses identified by a voluble line of clerks and accountants. He will need at least four more weeks to com plete his presentation of the case...
...jury of anthracite miners in terms of 172 letters written by Edwards to Miss Grain after he returned to Edwardsville. Mostly too hot for even sexational newspapers to handle, the letters described a physical attachment so feverish and inordinate that Edwards' father felt obliged to leave the courtroom while the assistant district attorney was sonorously reading them. As for Edwards, he offered to plead guilty and throw himself on the court's mercy if the letter-reading ordeal could be stopped...