Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there." Up to this time Seagrave had flatly refused to consider deportation, now he was heard to say: "I think I would almost rather take exile from Burma." All of the Baptist missionaries in Burma were in Rangoon for a meeting, but only one of them was in the courtroom to hear sentence passed on their former colleague, who has operated independently of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society since 1942. As he left the courtroom, Seagrave turned to his loyal friend, Rev. Walter D. Sutton, and asked for his prayers. Said Seagrave: "God bless you. Don't forget...
With El Campesino in the Paris courtroom was one of the largest collections of Soviet slave-camp alumni ever assembled Russians, Germans, Poles, Jews, Spaniards, and Balts. They included Jerzy Gliksman, brother of the Polish Socialist Victor Alter, who was executed by the NKVD in 1941; Margarete Buber-Neumann, author of Under Two Dictators (TIME, Jan. 15), whom the Bolsheviks jailed in Russia in 1938, then turned over to the Nazis in 1940; Julius Margolin, Tel Aviv philosophy student who traveled to France to tell the court about his six years in Soviet durance...
...paraded to the witness stand at Augsburg to accuse Ilse Koch, the "Bitch of Buchenwald," of brutalities. "Lies, all lies," screamed the red-haired widow of the camp's wartime Nazi commander. She had fits of hysteria, smashed up her cell, had to be carried from the courtroom. Doctors insisted that she was faking to avoid punishment for her crimes. Last week three German judges and six jurymen convicted her of inciting the murder of one prisoner, inciting an attempt to murder another. One of the most revolting accusationsthat she had tattooed prisoners killed so she could...
Owen J. Roberts, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, will deliver the Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures this year, it was disclosed recently. The lectures, t be given January 30, 31, and February 1 in the Langdell Courtroom, will deal with aspects of constitutionalism. No admission will be charged and the public is invited...
Last spring a federal grand jury in Manhattan decided that William Remington's denials were hollow after all, and indicted him on a charge of perjury. Last week, as he went to trial in the Manhattan federal courtroom where Alger Hiss had faced a similar charge, Defendant Remington found that the prosecution had more than the testimony of Elizabeth Bentley to back its charge. The prosecution's first important witness was Remington's divorced wife...