Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What in the world possessed you to describe me in your issue of Feb. 1 as "an avowed, outspoken partisan of Trotsky?" Did the Moscow trial upset you so much? Your account shows that you handled the Moscow end of it much more authoritatively than the Manhattan...
...have said: " 'Gentlemen of the grand jury: everybody's doing it; let it pass.' " So said Federal Judge Merrill E. Otis last week in Kansas City. He also overruled demurrers to a set of indictments and prepared the way for the beginning this week of a trial that has already shaken the concrete foundations of Kansas City politics...
...accident claims as could be taken out of crowded city courts. In New York City co-operation of the bar associations and the presiding justices of the city and municipal courts was readily obtainable. From these courts cases which would take as long as three years to bring to trial have been settled by arbitration within a few days after submission to the A. A. A. So far, 43 insurance companies have submitted 3,915 casualty cases, nearly half of which were arbitrated. In 1,497 cases, however, lawyers for the plaintiff have refused to arbitrate...
...cumulative 5% stock created especially for him. Cities Service common has one-twentieth of a vote per share. Mr. Doherty's new stock had one vote per share. His voting power was thus increased from about 6% to 30%-un-questioned control of the company. At the trial which began last month in Manhattan, Mr. Doherty's attorneys, John W. Davis and Joseph M. Proskauer, declared that "no decent and no proper motive" moved Cities Service's plaintiff stockholders. Mr. Doherty, they said, had been induced to sell the 200,000 shares by Cities Service directors...
...begin life anew with the help of old Lawyer Abbott (Lewis Stone). But Margaret Stevens (Karen Morley), sister-in-law of the dead woman, follows Dr. Jones, bent on revenge. She falls in love with him instead, is about to depart when her meddlesome landlady learns about the murder trial publishes the story in the village newspaper. Simultaneously, the landlady's little boy becomes seriously ill. When she yanks out the tube Dr. Jones has inserted in his throat, the boy dies. The overwrought town then launches a party to lynch both Dr. Jones and Miss Stevens. With masterful...