Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benefactors by attracting as many as 15,000 spectators to a single Green Bay game. In 1934, the team had financial difficulties again. A spectator fell off the grandstand and was awarded $5,500 damages. The mutual company with which the Packers were insured went into bankruptcy during the trial. The bankruptcy put the Packers' debt up to $10,000. Green Bay citizens then subscribed $13,000 to keep the team going...
...second of a series of trial debates designed to prepare members for intercollegiate contests later in the year, the Union Debating Council, in its meeting held in the upper common room of the Union last night, used as the topic for discussion: "Resolved That students should be prohibited from attending tutoring schools...
...Buenos Aires will certainly be cut to fit Franklin Roosevelt's plans. The story by Arthur Krock of President Roosevelt's plans to invite Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and other chiefs of States to a diplomatic conference (TIME, Sept. 7) was almost too fantastic even to be a trial balloon. But observers know there is no fantasy in assuming that Franklin Roosevelt, having performed miracles in U. S. politics, hopes to round out his claim to a big place in history by participating in world affairs. Any European adventure would bring U. S. isolationists howling about his ears...
Last week Planter Peacher, who now serves as city marshal of Earle, went on trial at Jonesboro before Federal Judge John E. Martineau, onetime Arkansas Governor, and a jury of twelve whites. On hand as a special representative of Attorney General Cummings, who was anxious to secure a conviction in the face of complaints from the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union against the usual calibre of Arkansas justice, was Brien McMahon, assistant U. S. attorney general in charge of the criminal division. As Planter Peacher sat sneeringly confident of acquittal, Prosecutor McMahon and his assistants presented the Government...
...rotund Art Young is gentler, his humor more pointed, and his following is a generation older and more devoted than Grosz's, but he too was tried for sedition during the War when the editors of the Masses (Art Young, John Reed, Floyd Dell, Max Eastman) went on trial for "obstructing the draft." Art Young fell asleep at the trial, did a self-caricature entitled Art Young on Trial for His Life which was later bid for by the prosecuting attorney. Born in Monroe, Wis. 70 years ago, Satirist Art Young has been sensitive to but never suffered from...