Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in the history of Harvard debating, the Debating Council will meet a team from Purdue University, Thursday evening, March 4, in the Lowell House Common Room. Also the Council has made tentative plans for a mock trial and meets with girls' colleges for the near future...
Proposals for debates have been sent to Radcliffe, Vassar, and Wellesley, reviving a custom long dropped at Harvard. In addition a colorful mock trial of General France with a prosecuting and defending attorney is being planned for a date to be announced later. All of the Debating Council's meets are open to students and their guests...
...Pendergasts have taken no direct part in irregularities, have never even hinted that votes be stolen or lists padded; that they merely told their subordinates to get all voters to register and vote Democratic, ward patronage to be apportioned according to results. Hope that this week's trial might break up the Pendergast Machine rested not so much on getting its drivers, but chiefly on getting so many cogs that the machine could not function...
...charges. Not till last week did Hitler, in the role of "Germany's Maritime Führer," come through with the statement that Jew Bernstein & colleagues were held "for violation of foreign exchange regulations," that a State trustee had been appointed to operate the Bernstein lines pending the trial's outcome...
...Parker v. Tribune" goes back to 1931. In that year Mr. Parker went to trial and nine months later was found guilty in Cook County Criminal Court of em bezzling at least $100,000 from North American Trust Co., in which he was a large stockholder. State's Attorney John A. Swanson, who obtained his conviction, proudly announced to the press that "Parker has been a financial racketeer in Chicago since 1912. This is the first time the law has caught up with...