Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reputed boss of the policy-game racket. "The cooler ain't never so cold as the morgue," quavered this pulpy nervous underworking last winter on giving himself up on a Federal charge of evading $92,103.34 in taxes on a 1929-31 income of $481,637.35. At his trial in Syracuse, N. Y. last spring he got a hung jury. Last week in rural Malone...
...sultanesque life for some years, enjoying the favors of over 300 girl guides, and breaking the resistance of girls who repelled him by threatening to fire them from their jobs (softest in the Union) or to incriminate them with the OGPU on some trumped-up charge. Convicted after swift trial by a Red Court, Sultanesque Sergei got ten years at hard labor...
...race, Driver Reis began to tinker with El Lagarto and the Packard motor with which he had replaced her original power plant in 1925. He had her bottom "shingled," to make her ride high in the water instead of cutting through it. When she outdistanced El Lagartito in trial spins, Mr. Reis decided to enter her in the 1931 race. She led for the first two 30-mile heats before breaking a connecting rod. In 1932, she finished a close second to Horace Dodge's Delphine IV, driven by Bill Horn...
...Give no information to officers, only your name. Plead not guilty and demand a trial. Demand that the ILD defend you. Insist that you be let out on your own recognizance. If they refuse, demand that they set a low bail. Demand a copy of the complaint. Do not sign anything. Carry on the class fight in jail and in the courts...
...bonus. Of more consequence is the probability that they will fail to be surprised also at the contents of Steve Grey's story. The story, a death-house interview with an investment racketeer (Harvey Stephens) whom Grey's testimony has helped to convict and whose arrest and trial he has covered with breath-taking efficiency, is meant to afford the denouement of the film and, handled with more care, it might have been an exceedingly effective melodramatic twist. Unfortunately, Authors Tim Whelan (who also directed the film) and Guy Bolton built up to it poorly through the earlier...