Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cleveland courtroom last week, Cleveland Press Reporter Leonard Hammer meekly answered a charge of contempt of court. Beside him stood Press Editor Louis Seltzer and two other staffers. They had faked a divorce (TIME, Feb. 14) to dramatize the slipshod handling of such cases in Cuyahoga County. Though Editor Seltzer argued that "What we did with good intent . . . could be done by others with bad intent," the four Pressmen were found guilty, fined a total of $1,000. Sympathetic readers offered Editor Seltzer more than $1,400, and sent him six bouquets; he kept the flowers but declined the money...
...Budapest courtroom, seven anti-Communists stood trial, and went from accusation to judgment in five days (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Manhattan, eleven cocky Communists, also accused of conspiring against their own country, were in their fourth week of pretrial maneuvering, and a jury had not even been chosen. All the privileges of U.S. justice, including the opportunity of delay .and the doubtful right of sheer dallying with the court, was being given to them in its fullest measure...
...days after the Germans took over, Joseph Mindszenty became bishop of Veszprem. In his graceful rococo palace, Bishop Mindszenty hid many Jews who were being persecuted by the Nazis. Last week, a witness spoke up-but not in the Communists' Budapest courtroom. She was Mrs. Janos Peter, a Hungarian Jew who had escaped from Auschwitz concentration camp. She now lived in Vienna. "I was advised to flee to Veszprem," she related. "I put myself under the protection of Bishop Mindszenty. He received me warmly and hid me in the cellar of his palace. At least 25 people were there...
...struck Mildred Gillars had yearned to become an actress, and had been rejected. But last week, at 48, she made the best of a dingier dramatic opportunity-her trial for treason as "Axis Sally." Her silver-grey hair hung in a shoulder-length bob as she entered the Washington courtroom. She wore her unfashionably short dress with an ingenue air. There was a peacock blue scarf at her throat, her long, horseface was dazzlingly tan, her mouth and nails crimson...
Last week, as judge, jurors, lawyers and reporters sat listening through earphones, some of her recorded broadcasts were played back in the courtroom. "I love America," said her voice, between recordings of U.S. jazz, "but I do not love Roosevelt and all his kike boy friends...