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...London's Chief Magistrate, Sir Bertrand Watson, it was Case No. 24 on his Bow Street Police Court docket. To Britons it was the first step in bringing to justice Britain's No. i traitor, William ("Lord Haw Haw of Hamburg") Joyce, 39. For the purpose, a British statute nearly six centuries old was dusted off. Joyce, charged the Court, "adhered to the King's enemies elsewhere than in the King's realm, to wit, in the German realm contrary to the Treason...
...first time this year Bulgaria's firing squads had nothing to do. The People's Courts had run through their docket of war criminal trials. Score: 2,007 death sentences, 1,986 executions. (The 21 condemned persons who had not been shot could not be found.) Another 3,064 prisoners were jailed for terms from a year to life. Among them: famed Liberal Konstantin Muravieff...
...these parties were only a fraction of those to which the Trumans were invited-and went. By this week the schedule was settling down to a steady canter. The Vice President's office had three dates on the docket, but there were about five more in the offing. High mark was an invitation from Mrs. Evalyn Walsh (Hope Diamond) McLean...
...South Sans." A band of "Tex-Mexes" (boys of Mexican ancestry) poured in from the West Side to join the battle. The police alarm was serious. In war-booming San Antonio juvenile crimes had rocketed in a single year from 10% to 50% of the cases on the police docket, and there had been three juvenile murders. When the battle was over property had been damaged and no less than 75 boys had been cut and bruised by sticks, stones, knives...
Thus refreshed, the justices faced the biggest docket since 1941. There were 513 cases pending-322 ready for the conference room, where the justices argue and debate, agree and disagree, are finally assigned to grind out the decisions...