Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called because he once shot and killed a man in his Bible lined study. An Austin jury, without leaving the courtroom, acquitted him on a self-defense plea...
...crowded Newark courtroom, Thomas F. Meaney last week took oath as Federal District Court Judge for New Jersey. Judge Guy L. Fake made a little speech of welcoming praise. Said Judge Meaney, with a moist eye, a lumped throat: "I can only say what is in my heart, and that is gratitude...
Barred from the courtroom was the unpleasant truth: that Judge Meaney was a protégé of notorious Jersey Boss Frank Hague, that he had been appointed by the President in a deal for Hague votes next fall, that the Senate had venally confirmed the venal appointment, despite an impassioned protest by venerable Senator George Norris. Less polite than the courtroom dialogue was George Norris's comment: "[If the nation were not busy with war] the Meaney nomination would spread over the country like wildfire, and would bring about the defeat of any official who had anything...
Treason. Into a crowded Detroit courtroom strutted 22-year-old Oberleutnant Hans Peter Krug, cocky in the slate-blue uniform of the Luftwaffe. He clicked his heels, saluted a startled bailiff. German-English dictionary in hand, he mounted the witness stand...
...whimsy which brought fame to his father, Alphonse Daudet (Tartarin de Tarascon, Lettres de Mon Moulin, etc.). Léon Daudet's editorials in L'Action were slapstick smacks in which he called his enemies female camels, unfecund sows, burst dogs, humpbacked cats, circumcised hermaphrodites. In a courtroom squabble Daudet once screamed "liar" at an opponent so long & loud that his nose began to bleed. L'Action bragged: "We do not want to upset the Republic; we want to cut its throat. We are not a political party; we are a conspiracy...