Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...column for the local yellow press. Disillusioned at discovering this, he takes a gallant fling at the modern social structure by giving his money to the deserving poor. At this point relatives step in with a motion to ship him off to an insane asylum. In the uproarious sanity trial which follows he is accused of everything from abnormal mental depression to "pixylation" (state of being followed by pixies), but Jean Arthur breaks up the proceedings at the last moment with love and kisses and saves him from the confines of the sanatorium. Altogether the plot and dialogue abound...
...last week, Vera Stretz was on trial for her life, and the New York Press had made her case the juiciest sex & shooting sensation of the season...
...Ludwig'' and three others had raided a native compound for women. As they chained the squat, tattooed booty, the clubhouse of Papuan men spewed out a phalanx of rescuers. Schmidt raised his rifle, shot and killed three. On trial at Rabaul on the neighboring island of New Britain, Schmidt's sole defense was that he had planned to frighten the blacks and what was so bad about killing a few Papuans anyway? Old Ludwig was sentenced...
Vera Stretz had a bang-up trial. She was represented by stubby, truculent Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz, famed for his defense of the Scottsboro boys (TIME, April 10, 1933). She had an audience of some 300 murder fans, including slinky Actress Tallulah Bankhead. A corps of some of the best talent the U. S. Press could muster looked searchingly into Miss Stretz's Germanic countenance, was not in complete accord as to what...
After a week of journalistic antics, unequaled since the Hauptmann trial last year, the publisher of one of the greatest offenders revolted. In an editorial entitled WHAT IS HAPPENING TO JUSTICE? Captain Joseph Medill Patterson of the News printed examples of the most offensive coverage of the Stretz trial he could find, admitted that "the News did the cleverest and worst," then denounced "the practice ... of trying murder cases beforehand in the newspapers. . . . The real issue is whether Miss Stretz . . . was guilty of murder. . . . But the defense attorney ... is trying also to paint the dead man as some kind...