Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the auspices of the Law School Committee of the Phillips Brooks House Association, the first of the annual series of lectures on legal topics will be given in the courtroom of Landgell Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecturer will be J. H. Lewin, LL.B. at Harvard University in 1923, and the people's counsel for the Maryland Public Service Commission, who has chosen as his subject, "Seven Year's Service for Leah...
Newton D. Baker and Howard F. Burns of Baker, Hostetler & Sidlo, Cleveland; Kennedy, Manchester, Ford, Bennett & Powers, Youngstown; Frederick H. Wood and Hoyt A. Moore of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, Manhattan. Judge Jenkins had heard his Courtroom reverberate to huge figures in dollars, steel, shares. He had heard the testimony of great steelmasters, of accountants. Few people expected that by last week he would have reached a decision. To the Court Clerk the Judge handed 19 pages of foolscap, written in pencil. To newsmen he gave two similar sheaves which he had carefully copied from the original, fearful...
...Xenophon. Sitnin! Ten years imprisonment!" Two other less important prisoners received the same sentence. But the five ringleaders, headed by Professor Leonid Ramzin, were condemned, one after an-other to: "The highest measure of social protection, Rastrel [Death by shooting]." At each death sentence cheers rang through the packed courtroom, echoed by a crowd of 10,000 which had been standing in the snow outside since 5 p. m.- seven hours. To correspondents, some of the men sentenced to death looked "broken," others "nervous," as OGPU police took them to their cells. Were they really going to die? Occidental observers...
...exists around half-destroyed churches containing the art of eight centuries. Loud speakers bleat communist propaganda into stond uncomprehending faces. On the whole, however, life is livable and looks to the future. "Black Bread and Red Coffins" brings a shadowy nation into clear relief. In the prison, in the courtroom, in the Bureau of Marriage and Divorce, and in the village world, representative personalities are etched in living and human detail...
...Courtroom realism was heightened occasionally when Prosecutor Pecora or Attorney Battle, falling into familiar character, would improvise upon his lines with angry "objections" or barbed "asides...