Word: courtrooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Publicity. Stench in the nostrils of most conscientious U. S. citizens is the confirmed U. S. practice of trying cases in the newspapers and on the radio while they are still sub judice in the courtroom. The 1934-35 trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann carried the practice to almost unbelievable lengths. A.B.A., convening in Los Angeles last year, withheld indignant comment only because the trial was still sub judice. Last week a special Committee of the Criminal Law Section headed by onetime Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Oscar Hallam, felt free to let off steam...
...unaware that Waters-Pierce Oil Co., from which he borrowed $3,300, was still controlled by the Standard Oil Trust. Exonerated, Texas' Bailey returned to the Senate, resigned in 1913, stayed out of politics until 1920 when he ran unsuccessfully for Governor. He died in a Sherman, Tex. courtroom...
Protagonists of the scandal were Eleanor Holm Jarrett, 22, ablest and best-looking swimmer on the U. S. team; Playwright Charles MacArthur fresh from a Chicago courtroom where his first wife, Cinemacritic Carol Frink, finally withdrew an alienation of affections suit against his second wife Actress Helen Hayes (TIME, July 13); and Avery Brundage, chairman of the U. S. Olympic Committee...
...three weeks prostitutes and bawds had paraded through the courtroom, while Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey questioned them on the details of their occupation (TIME, May 25). No old-fashioned vice trial was this. The prosecutor had been appointed at the request of New York's Governor Lehman, not to wipe out an ancient profession but to abolish rackets. Lucania and his prosperous executives had terrorized a large section of the city's dealers in flesh, had put prostitution on a chain-store basis...
...moment of a courtroom scene which sets an all-time high for legal realism on the screen arrives when the newsreel is projected with stopped action until most of those suspected are convicted. Now the brothers lose their nerve, shocked by the hate blazing in Joe. Even Katharine, who has just found he is alive, leaves him when he refuses her appeal to save the men he has condemned for his own murder. The judge is about to pronounce sentence when what is left of Joe's conscience drives him into court to undo his own reflection...