Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been wearing nothing but military uniforms ever since. By his command an Extraordinary Court-Martial with unprecedented powers was set up under the presidency of General Count Juichi Terauchi, the new War Minister, to try the assassins. They were denied the right of being defended by lawyers, their trial was secret. Seventeen death sentences were furtively announced in the dead of night (2 a. m.), and last week Tokyo ears were cocked for daybreak fusillades by firing squads...
...about California in a cart drawn by three burros, 74-year-old Peter Voiss supplemented the meagre income he made from prospecting by posing for snapshots. Two months ago, when Dentist Jasper Gattuccio refused to pay for taking a picture, Prospector Voiss shot him dead (TIME, May 11). On trial for murder last week, the whiskery oldster sat calmly in a San José. Calif, court while his attorney argued: "Dr. Gattuccio brought about his own death by stealing an old man's living for his own amusement. . . . The only home the old man had in the world...
Scheduled for trial for betraying military secrets this week, Harry Thompson faced a possible 20-year prison sentence instead of the death which might be his if the nation were at war. As for Toshio Miyazaki, the State Department merely announced that it had served no representations on Japan. Playing up to their part in the elaborate diplomatic game which calls for blank official ignorance about the whole business of spies and spying, Imperial Navy officials in Tokyo professed themselves eager to help the U. S. if they could, readily admitted that their roster included a Lieutenant Commander Toshio Miyazaki...
...never any intention of stopping Mussolini!" was Opposition Leader Attlee's blanket charge against the National Government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. "In the background was always the idea that Italy might be needed for an alliance against someone else. The result was that Sanctions never had a trial...
...myth of Joe Louis' invincibility started a year ago when, a raw but talented young fisticuffer eight months out of the amateur class, he defeated a worn trial horse named Natie Brown. Prizefight reporters, hero worshippers by nature and naturally gullible, promptly hailed Louis, as they had hailed dozens of other promising fighters, as a coming champion. Louis failed to belie his billing as promptly as his predecessors. Matched with Primo Camera, tottering but still formidable, he won by a knockout in the sixth round...