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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lively trial. Defense counsel protested that since the State Legislature had voted the boys each a set of false legs along with lifetime sinecures in the State Highway Commission, the boys should have appeared in court on their new underpinnings instead of on short crutches (see cut). Shropshire explained that they had not learned to use the new legs yet. Barnes seldom said anything except: "I disremember." Prosecutor John Carpenter also livened things up by appearing every day in a gayer ensemble than the day before, while Judge Wilson ("Coot") Warlick maintained a running fire of admonition from the bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Price of Progress | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...this most sensational trial of a humdrum Paris summer the principals were strangely at cross purposes. The prisoner, Miss Joan Warner, hoped to get by with her professionally nude "Slave Dance" and yearned to have it declared Art. The judges frankly considered the case trivial but expected something brilliant from the great French criminal lawyer, Maitre Henry Torres, who appeared for the defense. The prosecutor, scandalously sympathetic with Miss Warner, observed before the trial opened: "It would be a shame to send Joan to prison. She is young and besides she is very pretty. I am not going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Population v. Poetess | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...perfume on the dead man's coat. Then Ellen Garfield catches up by finding the woman's whereabouts by means of a laundry mark. Finally their efforts to outwit each other lead to a sequence in which, before the jury has announced its verdict in the trial, the presiding judge is flabbergasted to find it prematurely bannered in both the Star and the Express, in headlines which flatly contradict each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 22, 1935 | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

There is nothing particularly original about Front Page Woman. Nonetheless, brightly written, eminently well played and directed for comedy values by Michael Curtiz, it is distinctly better than average entertainment. Good shot: Ellen Garfield trying to explain to her city editor that her flash on the outcome of the trial was incorrect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 22, 1935 | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...General, who had mounted a small cannon on the hood of his automobile, impatiently waited for Detective William J. Burns to find the bombers. Sleuth Burns found the Brothers John J. and James B. McNamara, Iron Workers Union dynamiters, kidnapped them from Indianapolis and Detroit to Los Angeles. The trial in 1911 caused such serious nationwide friction on the labor-capital front that many a cool head feared a workers' revolution. Then, at the last moment, the Brothers McNamara confessed. Their lawyer, Clarence Darrow, was twice tried, finally acquitted of jury tampering. Los Angeles, saved from a Socialist mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESS: Third Perch | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

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