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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...
Scotchman, spent time and money attempting to gain retrial and release for one Oscar Slater, Edinburgh Jew, jailed on a murder charge. Sir Arthur guaranteed $5,000 for Slater's retrial, paid $1,500 of that sum himself. Year ago Slater was retried, released, awarded $30,000 government compensation for his long jail term. Last week Scot Doyle, still unable to collect his $1,500, remarked: "Slater is not a murderer but an ungrateful dog, and I think the Scottish nation should repay me." Prosperous, clad in voluminous plus-fours, smoking a fat cigar, Oscar Slater received newsgatherers...