Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleaded "not guilty," defended themselves wildly, vainly in a dramatic radio dialog with Prosecutor Krylenko, who beat down their defense as a tiger claws to bits a bleating sheep. Last week however all the star prisoners-six of the eight accused-expressed a desire to plead guilty, entered the courtroom with bulky, manuscript confessions which they proceeded to read in turn...
...American's radio-news staff wrote the scenario, packed into it the stuff of which city editors' dreams are made: the knife thrown at Dancer Dolores Divine as she walks to the witness chair; the disappearance of the "mystery gun" from counsel's table while the courtroom lights are switched off (each incident occurring just at the close of a day's session, of course). To make it suitable for broadcast the script was revised by N. B. C.'s continuity writer Finis Farr...
...working up from one friend who can be useful to another who can be more useful. Inevitably this involves to some extent the faculty of forgetting those who have been useful in the past, but sometimes a fighter's past catches up with him. Last week in a Manhattan courtroom James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, retired heavyweight champion of the world, defended himself against a suit brought by Timothy J. ("Big Tim") Mara, sports promoter, for approximately $500.000 back pay. Day by day the testimony showed the intricate process by which champions are made...
...testimony used against them. Subpenaed and presented with immunity waivers to sign were John Francis ("Boss") Curry, chief of Tammany Hall, and the leaders of his 23 districts. Boss Curry hitherto had made scant front-page news; now he made it with a vengeance by storming out of the courtroom because he had been asked to waive his immunity. Cried he to newsmen: "I've been insulted...
...small blond mustache but hard, blue, twinkling eyes stepped out, soprano voices cried "Ach, der schöne Adolf!" (Ah, handsome Adolf!). But so vast, dim, labyrinthine is the supreme courthouse that Witness Hitler, studiously quiet at first, stepped into the chamber and was actually on the stand before the courtroom galleries...