Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suspect. The red-headed modiste, with two arrests for larceny against her, had been implicated in the kidnapping of Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley in 1931. Two of the men with whom Mrs. Muench was alleged to have engineered this snatch were sent to prison for long terms. The trial of Mrs. Muench, sister of a Missouri Supreme Court Justice, was frequently delayed to let public sentiment against her cool...
Wedding rings last week were also a trial to Pope Pius XI. Catholics abroad had upped eyebrows at the activity of priests in Italy who have been assisting in the collection of wedding rings and other gold jewelry ever since Dictator Mussolini announced that he wanted them to swell the gold reserves of Italy's war chest. In the Vatican newsorgan I'Osservatore Romano an editorial last week urged Italian and foreign newsorgans in reporting the collection of wedding rings and other gold by Italian priests "to consider them as gifts for the poor...
...oleaginous to the point that, while arousing the League to impose sanctions, it is largely supplying Italy with oil through the petroleum companies it controls or owns. The Lords: ¶ Spent last week the first $5,000 of an estimated $50,000 which they will spend on the trial of Lord de Clifford commencing this week. Costs must be paid by the County of Surrey because in that unfortunate vicinity hell-raising Edward Southwell Russell, 28, the 26th Baron de Clifford, a descendant of one of William the Conqueror's knights, was driving his supercharged sports car when...
Under the Magna Charta it is the right of every Briton to be tried by his peers- i.e. a commoner by a jury of twelve commoners, a lord by the House of Lords. In 1901 occurred the last trial of a peer by his peers, that of Earl Russell who was convicted of bigamy and received the light sentence on which a peer can traditionally count, three months in jail...
...copy of TIME, Sept. 10, 1934 was handed up in King's Bench division last week for the inspection of Hon. Mr. Justice Swift. After scrutinizing it with care, His Lordship ventured, "It is apparently an American publication." Subject of the trial was a libel suit against Baron Beaverbrook's London Daily Express by intuitive Adolf Hitler's magnetic friend Dr. Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl. The gigantic Nazi Doktor is given to moments of extreme nervous excitement which he calms by striding about his office and inhaling great whiffs from a small green crystal bottle...