Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During trial, Captain Carter vigorously protested his innocence, claimed he was the victim of a base conspiracy. In 1908 he published a 115-page pamphlet entitled: "The Essential Facts Concerning My Unjust Condemnation and Subsequent Vindication." He had been out of prison more than a quarter-century before some newspaper friends persuaded a highly-placed official to listen to his story. Last session that listener, Illinois' Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, put through Congress a resolution to investigate Carter's claim that he was a "U. S. Dreyfus." Last week Oberlin Carter, still erect at 79, marched into...
Oldster Carter explained his fortune as the gift of his rich father-in-law, explained the fact that his father-in-law had refused to testify at his trial and fled to Europe by suggesting that that relative might have been in cahoots with the grafting contractors. "I have tried for years," he concluded sadly, "to get a hearing before all the wit nesses died, as they now have." The official record of Carter's case occupies 55,000 pages in the archives of the Departments of War and Justice. Senator Duffy reserved decision...
...judicial districts was Southern New York, embracing New York (Manhattan), Bronx, Westchester and eight other counties. On June 30 it had more than 8,000 cases pending, as compared to 5.000 for the Southern District of California, next worst. A suit entered in Southern New York comes to trial about two years later. Last session, Congress gave Southern California, where cases wait 18 months, two additional Federal judges. Last week the Judges' Conference urged that the number of judges in its Southern New York District be upped from eight...
...eight Long followers for income tax evasion. Last spring the Government warmed up with State Representative Joe Fisher, a petty henchman, put him in the penitentiary for 18 months. Last week it went to the mat with its first big-time Longster when Abraham Lazard Shushan was brought to trial in New Orleans on a charge of evading Federal taxes on $448,000 of a 1929-33 income...
...merely an entity in itself, Coach Mikkola will use this race as a time trial to fill the four remaining berths in both Varsity and Freshman entries for the Dartmouth-New Hampshire triangular next week. The six sure starters in each of next Friday's events will not race this afternoon, taking advantage of two continuous weeks of practice without a training break...