Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, when the Scottsboro affair was ending its fifth year and beginning its fourth trial scene, the accused Negroes had long since ceased to be a handful of friendless vagrants. Instead they had become black symbols of economic bitterness, race prejudice, sectional hatred and political conflict. To the Communist Party of the U. S., which had rushed to the Negroes' side with cash & counsel, the Scottsboro Boys were martyrs to Southern injustice and intolerance. To Southerners, the defendants were a gang of "bad niggers" whose crime was being brazenly exploited by malicious Reds, Jews and Yankees. Responsible Southern...
...risen to be Lieutenant Governor of Alabama. The defense soon pointed out that the State constitution forbade a man's holding two public jobs for pay. While Thomas Knight "laughed off" this objection, Judge William Callahan breezily overruled a plea that Knight be barred as special prosecutor at Trial No. 4 at Decatur...
Last week the so-called Stavisky Trial boiled down after eleven weeks to 1,956 Questions for the jury to answer. For the final fray of decision they arrived indignantly lugging blankets, pillows and night-shirts since the Court had ruled: "This is not America! The jurors will be supplied by the Government with nothing except beds and meals...
...jury, however, had got their wages raised by firm and united demands during the trial from $1 to $3.30 per day each. As quick-witted Latins they took exactly ten and a half hours to decide the 1,956 issues raised by the case. Through a galaxy of Paris' highest paid and most dexterously emotional lawyers, all 20 defendants offered substantially the same defense: "misplaced confidence." They knew that the late Sacha Stavisky. alias Serge Alexandre, hobnobbed with Cabinet Ministers. They knew that a Rothschild had sold to Sacha horses which raced at Long-champ carrying his silks, while...
...particular Stavisky's widow, handsome onetime Chanel Model Arlette Simon, protested during the trial that in 1926 he swore to her that he would "go straight." She vowed that she never doubted he had gone straight until after his death and the disclosure that he had swindled Frenchmen out of some...