Word: slayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawyer about to make his first argument before the U.S. Supreme Court is apt to feel almost as unfamiliar with the niceties of procedure as if he had been called upon to slay a bull before the onyx-eyed gods of ancient India. Last week, in a speech to members of the California State Bar in San Francisco, Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson offered a few helpful hints on advocacy in the high temple...
...Jersey, too, the Pennsy had a fight on its hands. A New Jersey grand jury last week charged that the Pennsylvania Railroad "did feloniously kill and slay 84 people in its commuter wreck at woodbridge, N.J. (TIME, Feb. 19) and turned 84 separate manslaughter indictments against the railroad. Conviction would bring a maximum fine of $84,000. Said Prosecutor Alex Beber: "The fine is not important. The important thing is to fix responsibility...