Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trader Cutten was charged with misreporting or failing to report his long and short positions in excess of 500,000 bu. under the Grain Futures Act (TIME, April 23). He did not attend his own hearing in the walnut-paneled, air-conditioned courtroom in the Federal Appraisers' Stores building. But a band of Texas farmers trooped in when the hearings began fortnight ago to see if they could find out "what becomes of our wheat and why we got 25? a bushel." They heard that: 1) Trader Cutten had been 11,000,000 bu. short of wheat...
Daniel J. Burke, attorney for several of the defendants in the riot trial at Charlestown, which went into its second day yesterday was ordered out of the courtroom by Judge Charles S. Sullivan, presiding magistrate, at 11.58 yesterday morning when he tried to extract testimony from the police concerning the purpose of the demonstration last Thursday...
Burke was in the process of examining the next to the last witness for the prosecution when his actions and questions so incensed Judge Sullivan that the magistrate ordered him to be removed from the courtroom and denied him the permission of continuing as an attorney for the defense. The removal of Burke from the defense left the case in a disorganized condition and Leon Lapin, one of the defendants was put in to handle the side of the defense...
There is a climactic murder, cross-examination and an impassive criminal that rivals any fast-moving courtroom scene in a modern play. On the whole, "Hostile valley" does not aim at any particular effect. Writing casually, the author creates his atmosphere, sketches in his characters, works them into a simple plot that can include his murder mystery denouncement and thus aims to strike upon at least one element that will held the interest of the average reader...
...scandal of 1914 which only the outbreak oi the World War wiped off the world's front pages. Last month Henri Rochette a swindler like Stavisky, who, more than a generation ago, bribed his way into high government immunity, cut his throat before his judges in a Paris courtroom and died just after they had sentenced him to three years in jail (TIME, April 16). Complicity in the Rochette scandal was largely the reason for the bitter press campaign which Gaston Calmette, editor of Le Figaro waged against Minister of Finance Joseph Caillaux. Finally Editor Calmette got hold...