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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At that point, at least half of the jurors broke into tears; one fainted dead away in the box and had to be carried out.
Judge Sloane, white-faced, turned on the jury: "Ladies of the jury," he said, "I tremble at what you did. One of the great bulwarks of our country is the jury system. Every little blot on that system -and this verdict is a blot on it-if continued and added...
The Government proposed to prove that Bridges perjured himself at his naturalization proceedings in 1945 when he swore that he had never been a Communist. Schomaker had served as business agent of Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, but lost the job in a union...
He testified that he personally took up Bridges' party membership cards on two occasions and issued him new ones; he often saw Bridges pay party dues. He told of meetings between Bridges and party officials, and testified that the Communists were in complete control of the bloody 1934 West...
"That is very possible," said the flustered witness, "but I don't recall it." During the luncheon recess. Government lawyers looked up the 1939 transcript, found no such testimony. Confronted with the evidence, and lectured by the judge for his conduct. Hallinan insisted, "Anything I can do to show...