Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...executives; 22 former or present Harlan County peace officers, including Sheriff (now ex-Sheriff) Theodore Middleton, who had told Senator La Follette "a lot of violence has been committed by my deputies." Last week Mr. Middleton and his co-defendants jammed a good portion of the tiny, oval courtroom. With lawyers, underlings, and visiting newspapermen, they took up so much space that hundreds of languorously curious country folk could not get inside...
Mystery of a suspected embezzler, lost overboard on a trip from Honolulu to San Francisco, solved by Perry Mason with his usual combined detective-lawyer activity, culminating in some successful courtroom trickery. Excellent...
...Moscow embassies. He was Genrikh ("Henry") Grigorevich Yagoda, who, next to Dictator Stalin, was for many years the most dread official in the Soviet Union, the head of Stalin's Secret Political Police. Harold Denny of the New York Times wrote of what the 250 spectators in the courtroom saw as they studied the star prisoner last week...
...manner, sat as if in a daze. In appearance he is the most crushed of all the defendants. He has lain for at least ten months in the same prison cells to which he has consigned so many others. He sits lackadaisically in a rear seat of the courtroom. He is dressed in a dark suit. He is only 47, but his hair has whitened in the past year, and his face is lined with despair...
...which he received after the last trial. With a bored air he superintended the routine by which prisoner after prisoner, as his name is called, pops up from the prisoner's box, pleads guilty to his section of the indictment (which he has already signed before entering the courtroom), pops down...