Word: petit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that lynching has anything to do with protecting womanhood in Alabama is pure poppycock. The answer to this is that a petit jury would require about 30 seconds to reach an electrocution verdict for the perpetrator of such a crime as this. Those unlawful hoodlums who imagine themselves heroes when taking part in lynchings have a distorted idea of patriotism. Only lawless hoodlums and the enemies of government take part in mob law. As the chief law enforcement officer of this State I condemn it and make known that as long as I am the attorney general of this State...
...York-one of the 26-the Judicial Council last week renewed its recommendation that the State Legislature authorize jury service by women under the same qualifications as men. The council held the practice would improve the calibre of petit juries. Feminist drives for jury rights in New York State began 15 years ago, but each time the Legislature allowed bills broadening the statutes to die in committee. In 1931 Bar Association groups fought the proposal, said lawyers had "difficulty in talking to women jurors." New Jersey has permitted mixed juries since 1921, advertised the fact when four women...
...have prodded police into action, nearly stopped the illegal traffic which in New York City alone amounted to 400,000 tons per year. But at its source the flow of stolen coal continues unabated. Law officers have declined to arrest the 'leggers, grand juries to indict them, petit juries to convict them. And Governor Earle, like Governor Pinchot before him, has refused every demand by coal operators for armed intervention...
...Behind all this is the feeling that things are going to blow up. . . . The true strength of France lies in the fact that the land belongs almost entirely to small owners, the petit proprietaire of whom we hear so much. But unfortunately if the Communists get the command in France as they have done in Russia the petit pro-prietaire will merely become the hated kulak. And as there is no Siberia to which to send him he is likely to have a worse time than the Russian kulak...
...sent one of the five Annenberg sons-in-law to Paris to dicker with the Inquirer's socialite owners, Mme Eleanore Elverson Paternõtre and her sleek son Raymond, onetime Undersecretary of State for National Economy, member of the Chamber of Deputies and publisher of the Paris Petit Journal. Last week the deal went through. From his modest Manhattan offices, Purchaser Annenberg announced that he was taking over active control of the Inquirer at once, that he had no backers, that the Inquirer would continue a stanch Republican sheet...