Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the trial there was no direct evidence against Ratanji-Ruxton because nobody had seen him kill or dismember so much as a fly. The Crown produced the patched blouse in which a faceless head had been found wrapped in The Devil's Beef Tub and asked the stepmother of Mary Jane Rogerson to comment upon it as a witness before the jury. "Yes, that is the blouse," said Mrs. Rogerson. "I can tell because I put on the patch. It was an old blouse, but I bought it at a jumble sale for Mary - she had wanted...
...weekly concerts by the Symphony in Boston on Friday and Saturday give every evidence of being superb and among the most distinguished in the series. The First Symphony of Beethoven opens the program. Composed in 1800 when Beethoven was thirty years old, it acted more as a trial balloon for the great symphonies which followed it than as an original contribution to the literature. The style and the methods employed are very reminiscent of Haydn and Mozart, but even in this early work, a certain individuality is already present which was for a time to make Beethoven the black sheep...
...court John Crempa tried to put P. S. C. on trial with the deputies. He and his witnesses testified that the deputies had been encamped around his farm for some weeks before the killing, that, when a neighbor ordered them off his land, they had replied that they would leave if P. S. C. told them to. As for the shooting, John Crempa stuck to the story he had told at the time. He said the deputies had fired a tear-gas bomb through his parlor window, shot down his wife when she rushed out with hands raised. Then...
...American renewed its concession from Denmark to make tests in Greenland for a possible transatlantic route via Iceland. Simultaneously, Danish Airways Co. and Norwegian Airways Co. disclosed they were separately preparing to assist Pan American in trial flights from Iceland to Europe this summer...
...will appeal the decision of the Federal Trade Commission to the Federal courts. Were it permitted to stand, the decision would wipe out a widely used trade practice under which a substantial proportion of the country's total retail business is done. . . . This practice itself is on trial, not Goodyear...