Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took his accustomed front-row seat as the latest Big Bolshevik trial opened in Moscow last week. He had already learned from the official Soviet newspaper Pravda ("Truth") that Death was going to be meted out to all 21 prisoners (TIME, March 7), no matter what happened in the courtroom. Pravda is seldom wrong in such a case. Thus the U. S. Ambassador could look across at the witness box to the right of the judges' table and figure that certain death hung over the distinguished Russian diplomat who welcomed him on his arrival (TIME...
...dismissed court. In 20 hours, at a cost of ?100, a crew of 22 carpenters and electricians equipped the room with a new heating system, screens, air ventilators, false ceiling. Next day the session was resumed. The room was sweltering. One juror fainted. "Now," bellowed the exasperated justice, "the courtroom...
...shop, sat down on a type form of Free Belgium, almost carried a "proof" on the seat of his pants. Thrice police rounded up everyone they thought responsible for Free Belgium but never did they pluck out its heart. At one mass trial, the German policeman guarding the courtroom found the next issue pinned to his coattails. The bewildered Kaiser and the enraged Brussels commander regularly received copies...
...robing room in the new Supreme Court Building. A few days before the Senate had confirmed President Roosevelt's second Supreme Court appointment -even more perfunctorily than in the case of Hugo Black. The Chief Justice administered the Constitutional oath to Stanley Reed, who then marched into the courtroom in his brand-new black robe to take his place as the 77th Justice to sit on the high bench, succeeding Associate Justice Sutherland. Before the former Solicitor General could sit in judgment, however, he had to take a second, judicial oath, swearing by God to "do equal right...
...lives with her" and does not make him feel he is accepting "charity," firmly asserted the Member of Parliament. His wife, who ceased having him live with her in 1936 and tried to cancel a previous financial settlement, sat with averted eyes. So packjammed was the courtroom with Mayfair socialites that some emerged with torn coats...