Word: grave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...examines the Bridgewater case for the first time, it raises the regret that it was not discovered in time for use at the trial. As it appears on paper nobody could reasonably censure a reader either for refusing to credit it or for concluding that it raises grave doubts of Vanzetti's guilt. No lawyer would be willing to accept it without the most rigid cross-examination; no lawyer would be willing to ignore it. It is the kind of stuff that must pass through the fire of a forensic adversary proceeding and be evaluated by the constituted trier...
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...estate in Kentshire. The host, who personally flung wide a welcoming door, is the fiscal arbiter of Britain, rubicund Winston Spencer Churchill, affable but shrewd Chancellor of the Exchequer. Very soon it appeared that Host Churchill was not excessively anxious to discuss and come to an agreement upon the grave matter which had caused Guest Gilbert to come over via Paris from Berlin. The Agent General's visit meant that Germany purposes to hold France and Britain to the promise recently given by their representatives at Geneva: namely that an International Finance Commission shall be set up with...
...this were not sufficiently distracting from Reparations, the Agent General was beamingly conducted through the Chancellor's Piggery (TIME. Oct. 22). where fat, nuzzling porkers are stuffed with choicest swill for prize winning purposes. From a source close to Mr. Gilbert it was reported that the grave problems in hand were not seriously attacked until he and Chancellor Churchill went up to London for a formal conference with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin...