Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eight to Four. After the jury retired, Alger Hiss sat in the courtroom reading a magazine. He seemed unworried, even happy. As the evening wore on, he read bulldog editions of the morning papers, chewed gum. As hour after hour dragged by, Hiss's confident smile faded. Everybody thought that if there were to be an acquittal, it would come fast. That was the way Stryker and Hiss had pitched their case-to brand the whole charge ridiculous. Obviously, some members of the jury did not think...
...tall, broad-shouldered Negro told a solemn story in a Manhattan federal courtroom last week. Manhattan Councilman Benjamin J. Davis, one of the eleven Communists on trial for conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the U.S. Government by force, was the third defendant to take the stand. He was the first to explain with any degree of conviction how and why some Americans become Communists...
Like gas-rationing and the nylon shortage, Tokyo Rose had faded fast in most people's memories. Veterans of the Pacific war remembered her, though-and so did the U.S. Government. Last week, in a rococo marble courtroom in San Francisco, the Government put California-born Tokyo Rose on trial for treason...
...weeks of his life, the burly Bulgarian commanded the free world's admiration. In 1933, two tyrannies faced each other in a Berlin courtroom - Naziism represented by a fat bully, Hermann Göring, Communism by an obscure, curly-maned agitator named Georgi Dimitrov. In this instance, the Communist was the hero, accused of complicity in the setting of the Reichstag fire which, by then, everyone suspected Hermann Göring had set himself. Dimitrov, acting as his own attorney, alone in a hostile courtroom and a hostile country, fought Göring with courage. "I am not here...
Dimitrov was dragged from the courtroom. "I wish I had a pistol!" he cried before he was out of hearing...