Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...item of evidence showed that he had extorted $20,000 from Chicago Telephone Co. for permission to erect a building without strikes. After two months of his one-year sentence President Wilson pardoned him, despite a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion that the evidence in his trial proclaimed him "a blackmailer, a highwayman, a betrayer of labor and a leech on commerce." He was promptly re-elected to his union job. Last week Boss Boyle's only ostensible reason for darkening Chicago was to get back for his unionists the 39 days per year pay which...
...gave him a special squad of policemen and detectives too young to be tainted by corruption or disillusionment. Third, he needed an honest, fearless judge to arraign and try his prisoners. Such a man was State Supreme Court Justice Philip James McCook, who was assigned to conduct a special trial term for his cases, has since been continued for two more terms. A scholarly jurist whose off-bench fun is farming at Niantic, Conn., Justice McCook has a kindly face and manner which belie the fighting spirit that won him a D. S. C. in France...
...trial events in both meets will start at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and the finals will be run off at 8 o'clock in the evening
Behind Red Lights (by Samuel Shipman & Beth Brown; Jack Curtis, producer) is a melodrama based on the mechanics of organized harlotry as illumined in the Manhattan trial of a squint-eyed vice tycoon named Charles ("Lucky'') Lucania (TIME, June 15). One character definitely not drawn from the Lucania dossier is a noble-hearted ''madam" who sheds a steady stream of sweetness & light, tries to dissuade new girls from becoming prostitutes before permitting them to do so, refuses to be coerced by the vice ring and connives with the authorities to smash it. Near...
Eight events are to be decided in teach class with trial heats to be contested at 2 P. M. and finals at 8 P. M. Afternoon admission will be 25 cents, evening, 40 cents...