Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in a Brooklyn courtroom, at the Government's spy trial, the testimony unwound the story of two worlds in conflict...
Last June the FBI swooped suddenly, arrested 33 (16 pleaded guilty). Last week in a Brooklyn courtroom a subdued William Sebold told his story, and narrative-wise U.S. Attorney Harold Kennedy filled in the gaps. On trial were Herman Lang, accused of selling details of the design of the bombsight, shadowy Frederick Joubert Duquesne, blond Axel Wheeler-Hill, brother of Bundster James Wheeler-Hill, as well as a baker, a shipping clerk, a book salesman, a photographer, a musician, a seaman, a machinist...
...season collapsed as Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt suddenly dropped her suit against her young sportsman husband and "an amicable separation" was announced. ∙ ∙ In Chicago Joe Louis and his Marva suddenly became reconciled in the midst of a battle over temporary alimony. Joe carried her from a courtroom in his arms, exclaiming: "Boy, this is like getting married all over again!" Announced was a "trial reconciliation," dated to run till Sept. 29-day of the Nova fight. ∙ ∙ To Barbara Hutton, in Los Angeles, wired Cinemactor Cary Grant, in Mexico City: "The weather is fine and the scenery...
...trust, successful prosecutor of the famed market manipulator, Charles W. Morse, T. R. called on New York to rally behind young "Harry" Stimson. He might as well have referred publicly to Charles Evans Hughes as "Spike." On the stump high-collared Henry Stimson spoke as he did in the courtroom. His argument was well-reasoned, factual, clear. When the time came to tear into Tammany mugs he politely "begged to differ with them." The result was inevitable: a Democratic landslide...
...little claimants, the trial was as picturesque as an old explorer's diary. It was so complicated that Court Reporter G. L. Dahl filled 327 notebooks with almost 5,000,000 words of testimony, accumulated so many exhibits that he finally took to hauling them to the courtroom by wheelbarrow (see cut). At stake was the ownership of 495 acres of Montgomery County oil land estimated to be worth...