Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Father Maguire was just the man for such a dispute. A native of Ireland, a onetime student at Oxford, he went to the U. S. as a newspaperman to report a big Labor trial, became a Roman Catholic soon afterward. Seldom does he figure in the news, but midwestern Labor and employers account him their best and most active mediator. He helped settle the long, bloody Kohler of Kohler (plumbing) strike in Wisconsin five years ago, has calmed many another row before it reached the headlines. Now sixtyish, he is a husky six-footer with a lined, full face...
...before the course of true justice can be made to run straight, he makes clear in discussions of the nature of crime, arrest, the jury, the judge, tricks of the trade, fool laws. Clinching his points with many a keenly human story, he reviews such legal circuses as the trial of Bruno Hauptmann (Author Train thinks Hauptmann got what he should have got but not the way he should have got it), a legal lynching like that of Leb Frank, who, though probably innocent, was convicted of rape by a Georgia jury in 1914, later physically lynched...
...Imprisoned Herschel Grynszpan is still awaiting trial. Meanwhile German newspaper correspondents have been told by their Government just how to report the trial: "Everything must be done to open the eyes of the French public to the fact that Jewry was behind this crime...
...helped send famed Murderer Gerald Chapman to the gallows, was called in. Hayes & Co. were arraigned by a Grand Jury in 1938 on a blanket charge of conspiracy to loot Waterbury of better than $1,000,000. Last week a jury of Connecticut laborers, farmers and housewives, after a trial that had lasted nearly eight months (TIME, Dec. 26), finally cogitated the conduct of Hayes & Co. Eager crowds, including Cinemactress Rosalind Russell (home from Hollywood on vacation), packed in and around the courtroom to hear the verdict: "Guilty." Tears filled the hard eyes of Boss Hayes...
...will have an opportunity to present our side at the trial. I have complete confidence in our courts. . . . I ask only that the public reserve judgment until all of the facts are known. . . . I regret keenly that the Government has found it necessary to place the blot of an indictment on the name of my son, Walter [indicted with two other Annenberg officials on charges of aiding and abetting the alleged evasion...