Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This game will mark the fifteenth trial of the Varsity sextet since its last defeat. A win streak has been maintained since February 11 last year in the play off game with Dartmouth. Since that time the Crimson has scored 90 goals to its opponents 24, has shut out opponents in four games, and held them to one goal in four others...
...other's worst enemies, but notably in Spain the disruptive activity of Trotskyists was a direct prelude to the arrival and success of Stalinists who have now taken charge in Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona. The ambiguous relations of Stalin and Trotsky produced the highly ambiguous Moscow Old Bolsheviks Trial (TIME, Aug. 31) of which English Professor Henry Noel Brailsford wrote that it was based on "three manifest impossibilities." Watching the trial, New York Times Correspondent Harold Denny cabled "This correspondent confesses that the psychology of these prisoners, ardently condemning themselves, baffles...
...amazed when I told him I wasn't interested; that I was sickened by the killings I had witnessed already. He explained : 'Our prisoners are gagged and when we arrive at the spot we tell them they are to be put on trial. Then we walk around behind them, as if to remove the gags, and shoot them through the back of the head. In this way the face is unrecog-nizable'-as the dumdum bullet passes through the head it mushrooms and as it emerges 'blows off the face from behind...
With much ostentation, the Young Marshal was taken to court by a military escort which behaved as though guarding his life rather than attempting to prevent his escape, and in the screwiest trial yet staged outside Soviet Russia he loudly took entire blame for everything and asked heaviest punishment. These court proceedings took about 90 minutes, but the judges and jurymen deliberated for several hours, sending out word to friends from time to time that ten years was going to be the verdict. They then sentenced the Young Marshal to ten years in jail plus loss of civil rights...
Then Federal prosecutors took action. Charging use of the mails to bilk wealthy Dr. Pitzman, they brought Mrs. Muench, her husband, Lawyer Wilfred Jones and a woman friend named Mrs. Helen Berroyer to trial. Convicted, tear-choked Mrs. Muench last week stood up before stern-faced Judge George H. Moore in St. Louis' U. S. District Court and brought her hoax story to a dramatic end. Sobbed...