Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the public debate continued, Preacher Mathiot stood in the dock in a small, jampacked Besangon courtroom. Also on trial: Francine Rapine, 21-year-old Catholic student who had acted as Si Ali's secretary (police proved that Si Ali had organized a local cell). To the court Mathiot explained his motives: "A hunted man is a hunted man. A wounded man is a wounded man. He was wounded mortally. He begged for the safety of a presbytery in the name of Jesus Christ . . . There is hope in an act of love. I acted as a Protestant pastor...
...nation accustomed to decorous politics, Diefenbaker is staging a dramatically different campaign. A onetime top criminal lawyer with a flair for courtroom oratory, he is barnstorming the country, pulling in big demonstrative audiences. Standing before giant-sized portraits of himself, blue eyes blazing, he heaps scorn on his political opponents ("they talked; we acted"), blames Liberal policies for Canada's recession, promises a huge public-works program. With occasional overtones of Yankee-baiting, he sweepingly blames the farm recession on the dumping of U.S. surpluses, calls for the creation of new industries to process Canadian raw materials instead...
...Dutch got around to Sukarno in 1929, and after a four-month trial, sentenced him to four years in prison. But they had also given him a nationwide forum: in an impassioned courtroom speech. Sukarno denounced the "vile evils of colonialism" and promised Indonesians that he would serve them as the instrument of "historic necessity." On his release in 1931, Sukarno was greeted by applauding crowds, flowers, gifts. He asked for only ten patriotic youths aflame with love for Indonesia, and "with them I shall shake the earth." The Dutch, already in the long shadows of a dying empire, promptly...
...Woman. In Springfield, Ohio, Marjorie June Flax drew many admiring male glances in a packed courtroom when she dropped assault-and-battery charges against her husband, said: "It was my fault; if I'd kept my big mouth shut, it wouldn't have happened...
...began on July 21, 1924-with Defense Lawyer Darrow pleading the boys guilty and winning permission from Judge John R. Caverly to present evidence of "the mental condition of these young men." A month later, as Darrow began his closing argument, a crowd fought wildly for seats in the courtroom, and a bailiff's arm was broken in the scramble. For twelve hours Clarence Darrow argued that the crime had been one of compulsion, that Nathan Leopold and Dickie Loeb could not have helped themselves. When he finished, tears were streaming down Judge Caverly's cheeks. He sentenced...