Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, as Julian Wadleigh, former State Department employee, took the stand, an air of excitement and tension finally came to the courtroom. It was a big moment for Claude Cross, the shrewd, quiet Boston lawyer who had succeeded posturing, lionlike Lloyd Paul Stryker as defense counsel for Hiss. Cross had contended in his opening statement that Wadleigh, and not Alger Hiss, had stolen the famed Pumpkin Papers...
Unbelieving Ears. As Kostov walked into the great hall of Sofia's Military Club, which had been rigged up as a courtroom, high Communists in the spectators gallery sat back smugly, waiting for him to cringe before his judges...
Thieving Eyes. Kostov was whisked from the courtroom. His co-defendants knew their parts, and stuck to them. Ex-Minister of Finance Ivan Stefanov, who confessed that he had been a spy for the British since 1932, passionately demanded that the Bulgarian people be on the lookout against such public enemies as himself...
...towering, well-tailored hodcarrier with a roguish black mustache clambered into the witness chair in a San Francisco federal courtroom last week, thumbed his red suspenders and settled back for a long stay. John Schomaker, former Communist, was Witness No.1 in the case of the U.S. v. Harry Bridges...
...stage seemed set for another Communist show trial. In the dock sat the accused, ready to plead guilty and to confess. On the courtroom wall, over the grey head of the comrade president of the tribunal, hung the Red star emblem with hammer & sickle, and under the flag was the portrait of the all-powerful leader. But the face of the leader seemed to have changed: it was not the slyly benign mask of Joseph Stalin; it was the square, rather brutal face of Josip Broz Tito...