Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the grand jury hearings were secret, little was revealed as to the quality of evidence to be offered when the accused are brought to trial this autumn. One Bert Hollinger of Le Mars, ex-bootlegger and smalltime "fixer" now serving five years for extortion, testified that in 1933 he paid cash in return for the bootlegging and slot-machine privileges in Plymouth and Woodbury Counties to Attorney General O'Connor. "O'Connor said it was very strange that I would insist on wanting to make the first payment to him direct, and I told him that I didn...
Meantime in Des Moines a Polk County grand jury upped the number of State officials awaiting trial to five by indicting State Liquor Commission Chairman Bernard E. Manley on a charge of having sold a bootlegger 20,000 State liquor seals...
Significantly both short-selling Merchant Nato and slack-jowled Commander Yamaguchi "died in jail" before the trial, as did two others who might have blabbed on the fanatical Committee of Revolution. Those tried last week were nearly all raw country youths, dupes of typical Japanese "blood brotherhood" propaganda. On paper the Great Plot had been one of the most appalling in Japanese history. But the only weapons of the plotters, aside from the bombing plane which never appeared, was a collection of Japanese swords and a handful of revolvers obviously useless against the firearms of police guarding the cabinet...
Coach Carr has named two entire trial lineups which he intends to alternate with further substitutions throughout the game. "A" team has five Seniors, three Juniors, and three Sophomores; "B", two Seniors, four Juniors, and five Sophomores. The game begins at 2:30 o'clock. The Harvard lineups...
...These trials will be held in the Music Building from 7.15 to 9 o'clock. Each man will be asked to play a piece he already knows. Then Malcolm H. Holmes '28, the conductor, will give him a composition to play on sight. Each trial will take about five minutes. Orchestral experience will not be necessary for acceptance...