Word: retrials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would have appeared to the native as partial as his present decision. But it would have been more just and far-sighted to commute the sentences to a real term of imprisonment; for only thus could he have assured the natives of his impartiality and secured a retrial of the offending Hawaiians. At present, law in Hawaii stands riddled with race prejudice and contempt; to reestablish its prestige will prove a task almost impossible under present conditions of faltering leadership and public indifference...
Curtiss. Two months ago an Act-of-God decision in favor of Curtiss Flying Service was set aside by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn, and a retrial ordered in a $25,000 damage suit. Last fortnight a jury again opined that the Curtiss pilot was not blamable for a fatal crash resulting from an air bump...
...their high judicial bench to hear John MacDonald recant testimony that had sent Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings, radical labor agitators, to prison for life. Sitting without robes, not as a court but as an advisory pardon board, the justices commenced what was virtually and peculiarly a retrial of the bombing of San Francisco's Preparedness Day parade in 1916. Billings, as a two-time felon, could be pardoned only with the Supreme Court's approval...
...15?Retrial of $500,000 damage (by slander) suit against Sir Joseph Duveen (TIME, Feb. 19, 1929 et seq.); in Manhattan...
...Retrial of $500,000 damage (by slander) suit against Sir Joseph Duveen (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929 et seq.) in Manhattan...