Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Climbing over piles of corpses, she filed an exclusive story, organized an emergency hospital, got Publisher Hearst to send relief trains. Another time, disguised as a Salvation Army lass, she visited the "lowest dives" of the Barbary Coast, wrote a stirring series on vice. She covered the Thaw murder trial, interviewed everyone from Sir Henry Irving to President Harrison, visited the leper colony at Molokai. When Mr. Hearst's mother died in 1919, "Annie Laurie" wrote the official press obituary, later turned out a 54,000-word biography of Phoebe Apperson Hearst in twelve days...
...kidnapped and murdered Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. near Hopewell in March 1932, was caught with ransom money in The Bronx in September 1934, was convicted and sentenced to death at Flemington in February 1935. Unanimously the 13 voting members of New Jersey's highest court upheld the trial court on all 16 contested points of law, declared that the German carpenter's conviction was "one to which the evidence inescapably led." In a forlorn effort to save Hauptmann from the electric chair sometime before Christmas, defense counsel considered appealing to the U. S. Supreme Court on an unindicated...
Absent Transvestite. In the Federal district court at Louisville a kidnapping trial began without the actual snatcher. To tne witness stand went rich young Alice Speed Stoll, daughter-in-law of a Louisville oilman, to tell how Thomas H. Robinson Jr. had abducted her from her suburban home in October 1934, held her captive in an Indianapolis apartment for the next six days while dickering for $50,000 ransom (TIME, Oct. 20, 1934). 'Napper Robinson's eccentricity is transvestitism. Since he habitually wears women's clothes, Government agents have not yet been able to pick...
...city's white-bearded school superintendent whom Mayor William Dever had imported from New York. "Big Bill" flung abuse at Superintendent McAndrew, made a great hullabaloo about "pro-British" history textbooks, finally got himself elected Mayor. Superintendent McAndrew watched the Thompson antics with fine disdain, stood a farcical trial for insubordination, finally retired to East Setauket, N. Y. There he edits the "Educational Review" in School & Society...
...intellectual disciplines is the hardest job that a parent has. Dr. Kugelmass gives many a useful pointer in his manual. Dressing and undressing, he shows, "are difficult techniques for the young child. Each bit of raiment requires a special procedure. If the child is given the freedom of trial and error in the manipulation of his clothing and shoes, he will gradually learn to dress. Parental encouragement, guidance and instruction are more desirable than impatient dressing and undressing the child...