Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courts throughought the country, and especially in populous and important financial centers, like the lower New York area, are bogged down in labyrinthinc legal tangles that take years to unravel. While cases sit on the docket for months in and months out in the vain hope of coming to trial, money is lost to all contenders as settlements drags out to the edge of doom, and the inevitable lawyers hover about like harpics waiting for their fees...
...delicate age of the judges that causes this traffic jam. It is another the failure of the judicial framework to keep pace in size and flexibility with the needs of a growing country. Indeed a seventy year old justice can hand down a crisper opinion,--and many a trial lawyer knows it to his pain,--than one of forty, for the very reason that by his years of training in the law he knows the answers...
...Soviet archcriminal, guiltiest of the Old Bolsheviks on trial, was "That Monkey" Radek, depicted horribly grimacing and malevolent on the placards which the Moscow crowds were about to shoulder in the Red Square, shouting exultation that Karl Radek was to be put to death. Up to about four months ago, Comrade Radek lived in an elaborate penthouse, atop a new Bolshevik skyscraper, and was honored as the No. 1 journalist of the Communist world, writing daily in Stalin's official newsorgan Izvestia. That Radek should have confessed to high treason and blanket "Trotskyist" conspiracy against the Soviet Fatherland...
Obviously the Second Old Bolshevik Trial was either above or below board and Great Exile Leon Trotsky either merits execution in Ogpu cellars or does...
...people of the village are very much interested in anybody who is 'lawing it.' . . . I had a large case recently before a justice of the peace and jury of six, in which I earned $10. The trial was held at 8 p. m. in the social room of the local fire house. My client was suing for $6.50 damages ... to his automobile. At least 100 spectators were present. [A city lawyer and I] fought our case amid boos and cheers from the audience until 11 p. m. The jury brought in a verdict for $3.50 in favor...