Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Case. The Guild appealed to the National Labor Relations Board which summoned the AP to a hearing with Dean Charles E. Clark of the Yale Law School as Trial Examiner. John W. Davis, 1924 Democratic Presidential candidate, counsel for the AP, denied the jurisdiction of the NLRB, made no argument as to the facts of Watson's discharge. Clark ruled the AP must reinstate Watson because he had been 'discharged for Guild activities. The AP refused. NLRB then asked the Second Circuit Court of Appeals for an enforcing order against the AP. This was granted...
...their first time trial of the season at a racing beat, the Varsity crew covered the mile and three quarters course in 9:12 on Saturday afternoon. Since the best time made by Harvard last year was 9:10, Saturday's time was considered highly encouraging for so early in the season...
Since June 1935, Prosecutor Dewey had brought 52 loan shark and prostitution racketeers to trial, sent every one to prison. But those convictions had been incidental to his major objective. After 18 months of evidence collecting, the restaurant case marked his first courtroom move against New York's industrial rackets, which were the big game Governor Lehman appointed him to track down. On last week's jury verdict hung the probable success or failure of his whole drive to rid the nation's largest city of criminal business parasites (TIME...
...made privately" to 700 Soviet industrial managers by the newly appointed Commissar of Heavy Industry Valery I. Mezhlauk (TIME, March 8). Since 700 people are too many to keep Quiet, it was soon learned that Comrade Mezhlauk had dropped some strong hints as to the next Moscow Old Bolshevik trial, intimating that the Ogpu's efforts to wring confessions are being "strenuously resisted" by the two star prisoners, onetime Soviet Premier Alexei Rykov and onetime Soviet No. 1 Editor Nikolai Bukharin, both finely bearded Old Bolsheviks. Smooth-shaven New Bolshevik Mezhlauk smoothly voiced indignation, but not at third-degree...
Paul Moscou, who pleaded guilty before the trial was so thoroughly disreputable that even Mason's attorney declared: "When Moscou walked across the threshold ... it might just as well have been the devil himself. He spread his own personal corruption upon everyone who had the misfortune to have been in his presence...