Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spectators in a crowded courtroom in Kansas City stirred expectantly one day last week when a trim young woman clad in a grey dress and a white hat climbed onto the witness stand. She was Mary McElroy, daughter of Kansas City's City Manager. Two months prior she had been abducted for $30,000 ransom (TIME, July...
...Episcopal ministry, turned aside to the law. In 1912 he campaigned for Theodore Roosevelt. In 1916 he voted for Wilson. Two years later Tammany gave him a job as deputy assistant district attorney. Until 1930 when he retired, his brains really ran that office where he was the principal courtroom prosecutor. He put more than a hundred "bucket shops" out of business and thereby learned the shady side of the brokerage business. He sent State Superintendent of Banks Frank Warder to Sing Sing for taking bribes in the City Trust Co. scandal. He convicted Anti-Saloon Leaguer William H. Anderson...
...sold her, Mr. Mitchell got his wife's small fortune "out of hock," whereas he became merely a little more in debt to the House of Morgan than he was before. Was his motive, then, prudence rather than tax-evasion? Elizabeth Rend Mitchell is not in the courtroom. A large matronly woman with two grown children, she cannot be made to testify against her husband, may not be called to testify for him. Long an amateur pianist she once orchestrated a Chopin Polonaise for a Philharmonic-Symphony Concert in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium. In a Press interview...
...brought the question around to income taxes and the $21,000,000 loss of 1930-1931. At no time did Lawyer Pecora openly point to any impropriety in the action of Banker Morgan or his partners but evidently aware of the impression the questions & answers would make on the courtroom crowd and in next days' headlines, he assumed his best prosecuting attorney manner...
Three hundred eager citizens went early last week to Manhattan's Federal Building and scurried to find seats in a courtroom on the third floor, a courtroom with faded yellow walls, with cracks and patches and the dingy paint and plaster off its ceiling. In this grim auditorium with miserable acoustics, they settled down to see a show. As prolog they enjoyed 20 minutes of minor prohibition and narcotic cases. Then court bailiffs cleared the auditorium...