Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, Yale's earnest Coach Ed Leader, puzzled when his junior varsity beat the varsity by three lengths in a trial race fortnight ago, had desperately switched crews, demoting all but two varsity oarsmen nd putting jayvees in their places. Harvard's amiable Coach Charles Whiteside had commented mildly on a lack of interest. His men, he said, came late to practice. The race reversed this situation. At the finish, Yale's varsity came in six lengths behind a smooth rowing Harvard boat whose time of 20:19 for four miles was within five seconds...
...where the remarks of the court might be exceedingly prejudicial to the defendants. I can see where they could be extremely prejudicial to the Government. Every person charged with a crime has a right to a fair and impartial trial. Every individual who has a case in court has a right to a fair and impartial trial and the court, having reached this conclusion that the remarks were not only inopportune but not justified, at this time declares a mistrial in this case and the jury will be discharged...
...Gentlemen, in this case some remarks were made by the court yesterday. . . . The remarks were suggested, or rather provoked by the development of the trial. . . . You will appreciate this is an unusual case. It is the first case of its kind I know anything about where a prosecution under an indictment for a violation of a regulation which was promulgated by an executive order has been...
...three weeks prostitutes and bawds had paraded through the courtroom, while Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey questioned them on the details of their occupation (TIME, May 25). No old-fashioned vice trial was this. The prosecutor had been appointed at the request of New York's Governor Lehman, not to wipe out an ancient profession but to abolish rackets. Lucania and his prosperous executives had terrorized a large section of the city's dealers in flesh, had put prostitution on a chain-store basis...
...long trial through which sleek Businessman Lucania sat with reptilian calm, his high-powered lawyers launched into a 13-hour summation for the defense, attacking the credibility of the prosecution's witnesses, declaring that strumpets had been taken on wild parties by the state in order to induce them to testify. Mr. Dewey contented himself with a seven-hour answer. Urging the jury not to spare Lucania, he declared: "Unless you are willing to convict the top man you might as well acquit everyone...