Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dear to Founder Narvesen are his courses in religion ("Not proselyting but better understanding is the goal"). In the Municipal Courtroom at City Hall, Rev. John Gabriels expounds the Fundamentals of Catholicism. Rabbi David I. Cedarbaum presents The Jew Under Persecution from Pharaoh to Hitler in Central Temple House. High in Olds Tower the Rev. J. A. Canby of Lansing's Church of Christ offers Bible Study to all comers. Other ministers and church workers hold forth elsewhere on everything from Hymnology to Christian Parenthood in the Modern World...
...Customs started the case in May, 1932 when it seized an unexpurgated copy sent to Publisher Bennett A. Cerf from Paris. Last fortnight there was a hearing in the small elegantly informal courtroom of the Bar Association Building. Publisher Cerf's lawyer, Morris Ernst, who makes a specialty of fighting censorship cases, contended that he had yet to find a single instance which proved that reading any book had led to the commission of a crime. Assistant U. S. Attorney Samuel C. Coleman asked the court not to regard him as a "puritanical censor," said he found "ample grounds...
...Hassel and Greenberg were murdered in a New Jersey hotel. Irving Wexler dried his eyes and went on about his business of being New York's most notorious gangster and beer baron. Last week the Wexler career came to an abrupt and inglorious end in a dingy Federal courtroom in Manhattan...
...blue uniforms with gleaming, clinking swords. For the occasion police guards were doubled. Into the gallery jammed Berlin's diplomatic corps (including U. S. History-Professor-Ambassador William E. Dodd) and about half the Nazi Cabinet. Except for the six red-robed judges every German in the courtroom leaped to his feet at Nazi salute as Witness Göring marched in. stalked down to the Supreme Court Bench, clicked his heels and saluted Presiding Judge Dr. Wilhelm Bünger. Quavered Judge Biinger: "I waive the usual procedure of putting questions. The Prosecutor has called...
...countries. It had been announced that no Communist or Socialist newspaper men would be admitted to the long press tables of the Leipzig trial. Two Moscow correspondents, Mme Lili Keith of Izvestia and M. Ivan Bespalow of the Tass news agency, made no efforts to invade the courtroom, but set up offices in Leipzig. Nazi police raided the room, ransacked it thoroughly and hauled both writers off to the police station for hours of questioning...