Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unless the host were guilty of gross negligence, drunkenness or willful misconduct. In 1931, to cut down collusion, the gross negligence clause was removed. A guest was denned as a "person who accepts a ride in any vehicle without giving compensation therefor." When the McCann-Hoffman case came to trial year ago, the McCanns claimed that they were not guests of the Hoffmans since they had agreed to share the expenses of the weekend. They accused Biff Hoffman of speeding. He denied speeding but admitted that there had been talk of sharing expenses. Nonetheless, the judge ruled that...
President Shallcross, former president of the Philadelphia Real Estate Board, secretary of the Union League. Said he as he posted $10,000 bond: "All that I ask is a fair trial...
Cynical Philadelphians foresaw a fight to have the indictments quashed, scant possibility of convictions, much less of prison sentences, if & when the cases come to trial. Much talk about political spite work behind the indictments rose from the Union League and Rittenhouse clubs. And the Republican Ledger sprang to the bankers' defense with a story reporting the indictments under the head: ACCUSED DENIED RIGHT TO EXPLAIN IN MORTGAGE QUIZ...
Paying her tribute to Andrew's disinterestedness, his courage, his picturesqueness and the devotion to his work that never flagged in all his 80 years, Pearl Buck nevertheless makes it clear that he was often a trial to his family, his fellow missionaries and sometimes to the Chinese. Shamelessly confessing that he wished he had sons instead of daughters, he never read any of Pearl Buck's writing. When he heard she was wasting God's time scribbling novels, he picked up one of her books, stared at it doubtfully, put it back. "I think...
...sugar." So profound was the peace that the Institute brought to its harassed industry, so remarkable the immediate rise in the profits of its members, that the Department of Justice grew suspicious that it was a combination in restraint of trade, launched anti-trust proceedings in 1931. The trial lasted six months, the briefs filled 1,500 pages, the testimony 10,000 pages. In 1934 Manhattan's Federal Judge Julian William Mack handed down a 100,000-word opinion, holding among other things that the Institute and its members, who accounted for most of the sugar refined...