Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Reed, who later became a Soviet saint, rides on a raid with Pancho Villa (1914) and turns in a story that is half good fast Western, half a discussion of human liberty. In the same manner, H. L. Mencken ignores most of the who, what & when of the courtroom testimony in the Scopes evolution trial (1925) and tells the why of the trial in the mores of the backward, superstition-ridden hill folks...
...York federal courtroom last week, a congressional subcommittee cornered a group of union labor leaders. It fired the same question at them which had been asked last year of a group of Hollywood writers and producers. The question: "Are you or have you ever been a Communist?" The unionists were from the C.I.O.'s Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which takes in everyone from truck loaders to notions-counter clerks in the country's department stores. The union, with some 150,000 members, is split by a right wing-left wing fight...
...also refused to answer what Congressman Fred Hartley, co-author of the Taft-Hartley law, called "the $64 question." Chairman Kersten said that all nine would be cited for contempt of Congress, punishable by a maximum of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine. Readmitted to the courtroom, Witness Osman shouted that the committee's action reflected "the corrupt, degenerate mentality of men who have made the House of Representatives a house of ill repute...
Doodler. In Tokyo, during Hideo Miyamae's trial for thievery, he stole a cop's cap, his own attorney's umbrella, was caught sneaking off with the courtroom clock...
Arrogant SS General Karl Brandt, Hitler's personal surgeon, had had a pretty good idea of what was coming. In the courtroom at Nürnberg last year, while his trial droned on, he doodled on a sheet of paper. On one sheet he drew a wooden gallows with 13 steps leading to the rope and noose. Beneath it he wrote: "Heil Hitler, ich komme bald" (I'm coming soon). Last week, in the courtyard of the Landsberg prison, Karl Brandt went to his gallows.* With him went six other Nazi doctors and SS officers, including Karl Gebhardt...