Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then in his most aggressive courtroom manner, Tom Dewey went after the Roosevelt record on preparedness...
This week the Government tried to try Mussolini's blood-stained police chief, Pietro Caruso. Howling Romans surged into the courtroom, demanded Caruso for themselves. Police hid him in a back room. Balked, the mob turned on plump, well-fed Donato Caretta, deposed boss of the infamous Regina Coeli jail and a prosecution witness. Men & women spat at him, screeched at him, kicked him, slugged him. They threw him in the Tiber. Boatmen bashed in his head with heavy oars, towed his lifeless body to the jail. Then the people strung him head down and near-naked from...
Dewey wanted no nonsense, no barnstorming, no parades, flags or placards. His first two speeches, as he began his 6,700-mile jaunt to the West Coast and back, were short, crisp, and to the point-good examples of well ordered, factual courtroom talk. His tactical approach was to present one issue in each speech and ram that issue home so hard that the New Deal would be driven into long explanation...
After retiring, undefeated, from the Senate, Jim Reed went back to Kansas City and the law. A lover of courtroom jousts, he took all cases. Most celebrated: the famed Bridge Table Murder of 1929. A Mrs. Myrtle Bennett, after a bridge-table argument with her husband resulting from an overbid, shot him dead as he was standing in the bathroom. At the trial, Jim Reed, then 69, wept copiously. His client was acquitted...
Married. Sir Thomas Beecham, 65, goateed maestro; and his second wife, Betty Humby Beecham, 36; for the second time, in a courtroom ceremony, to cover technicalities of British divorce laws before their return to England for a four months' visit; in Manhattan...