Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowded Federal courtroom in Oklahoma City one day last week, middle- aged Charles Frederick Urschel climbed down from the witness stand, strode over to a row of prisoners. He stopped in front of a strapping, humped-nosed fellow named Albert Bates. "That's one of the men who kidnapped me," said...
...courtroom stirred with tense excitement as Witness Urschel identified the chain and battered tin cup which definitely established his hideout as the gangster-ridden Texas farm of R. G. ("Boss") Shannon. In the most graphic and sensational trial Oklahoma had seen in years, twelve defendants were charged with conspiracy to kidnap the wealthy oil man. whose family had paid about $200,000 for his release last July. Besides Bates there were seven alleged money-passers from St. Paul and Minneapolis, Farmer Shannon, his wife and son, and most notorious of all, Harvey J. Bailey. The law was taking no chances...
...trial of the facts of the Reichstag Fire before an "International Commission of Distinguished Jurists," meeting in the courtroom of the Law Society, without any official sanction whatsoever. Sitting in judgment last week were Arthur Garfield Hays of Manhattan, D. N. Pritt, K. C., chairman of the Commission and five others. Witnesses who asked for anonymity were given protection from reporters and photographers...
...blame. They had been brought up in the school of Ricardo*; and John Stuart Mill and more latterly, Mr. Herbert Hoover." Father Coughlin was putting on a one-man show for the one-man jury. Much to the delight of a hot pack of Detroiters who squeezed into the courtroom, he thumped, ranted and deplored for two full days. He discoursed at length on the subject of gold; he sketched the history of money; he traced the origins of the War; he debated Karl Marx with Michigan's Attorney General O'Brien, boomed for Inflation, attacked Alfred Emanuel...
...courtroom strode Lawyer Keenan to telephone the verdict to his chief in Washington. Attorney General Cummings, elated, cried: "The penalty is an indication as to how the people feel. ... If convictions may be obtained and heavy penalties inflicted a sufficient number of times, kidnapping can be stopped...