Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning, in another courtroom, Circuit Judge Ernest F. Oakley gave out a separate decision in a civil action, held that Big John Nick had received the money, ordered him to pay the union $10,000. Editor Coghlan's temper boiled over. Into the Post-Dispatch he hurled an angry editorial...
...order are made a laughing stock. The next day, in another courtroom, the force of the law strikes with lightninglike retribution. ... A case? Yes and no. No, if you are in criminal division before Judge Rowe. If you are in civil division before Judge Oakley, yes-emphatically yes!" With Editor Coghlan's blast ran a biting cartoon by Daniel Fitzpatrick...
From his huge oak bench high in Manhattan's gold-topped Federal courthouse, aging Judge Francis Gordon Caffey looked down last week upon a courtroom empty save for two dozen polite attorneys. Their faces were familiar to him. He had been looking at them for 22 months (minus a few recesses) while the Government's anti-trust suit against big Aluminum Co. of America (TIME, July 3) droned on. To the bench came youthful Defense Counsel Edgar Baker. "Your Honor," he petitioned, "I would like to be excused. I have heard only ten minutes ago that I have...
Last week a dark-haired man with crooked mouth and sombre eyes slouched glumly into a Manhattan courtroom. He was Earl Russell Browder, the nominal leader* of U. S. Communists...
...conscientious objections to World War I). After pondering the evidence for 45 minutes, the jury found him guilty, and the judge promptly sentenced him to two years in prison on each of two counts, a $2,000 fine. Pending appeal, Comrade Browder remained free on bail, left the courtroom to attend a Communist commemoration of the 16th anniversary of Lenin's death...