Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story, like so many others of the mid-20th Century, came to its end in a courtroom. But its beginnings were more auspicious. It began, more or less, on that day in 1926 when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand and German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann. Putting aside the enmities of World War I, Briand and Stresemann had signed at Locarno a mutual security pact...
...heat in tiny, suffocating Chamber 13 of the Palais de Justice matted the 46-year-old defendant's white mane, wreathed his wrinkled face in perspiration. Four years after the war, the narrative of Nazi evil retold in the courtroom roused no passion, fell back into forgetfulness. During his deft defense, Abetz mechanically professed Nazi theory, just as mechanically pleaded that he had always tried to mitigate Nazi practice. The sentence: 20 years at hard labor...
...steam-bath heat of the Lexington, Ky. federal courtroom last week, fat, whip-brained Edward Fretwell Prichard Jr. sat with his eyes closed and his hands clutching the arms of his chair. A distinguished witness, perhaps the most respected man in Bourbon County, was addressing the court...
...young politician, Judge Ardery told the expectant courtroom, was 34-year-old Ed Prichard, Princeton and Harvard Law School honor graduate, protégé of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, adviser of big shots like Fred Vinson and one of the New Deal's wonder boys...
...Penknife, I Think." This week dapper John George Haigh himself walked jauntily up to the bench in a Lewes courtroom to plead "not guilty" to the charge of premeditated murder laid against him. He did not, however, deny the killings...