Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bogeys not always easy to exorcise, and even genuine doubt is disturbing, as Mr. Laurie shows in his discussion of "La Belle Ferronniere," by Leonardo da Vinci. There were two contenders for genuineness, one in the Louvre (the more familiar) and the other in the Hahn collection. A trial took place in New York, but the jury disagreed. Mr. Laurie's own deposition, offered now, after a microscopic examination of both, is that the Louvre picture is unquestionably authentic, while the Hahn, which is also old, is the copy...
...shadowy little semicircular chamber of the U. S. Supreme Court last week, NIRA at last went to its great trial. For Donald Randall Richberg, it was, indeed, a momentous occasion. As a special assistant to the Attorney General, he appeared in wing collar and cutaway to lead the Federal defending forces against Joseph, Alexander, Martin and Aaron Schechter...
...Brothers Schechter operate the two largest jobbing plants in the $60,000,000-a-year Brooklyn live poultry business. They stoutly refused to let the Blue Eagle roost among their chickens, so the Government indicted them on 19 counts. Two trial courts found the Schechters guilty of violating the fair trade provisions of the poultry code: selling diseased fowl; filing false sales volume and price scale reports; permitting butchers to select the chickens they wanted killed, in spite of the code's insistence on "straight killing." But neither lower court found the Schechters outside the law because they worked...
...beauty and because few serious students of the case believed that slippery Alexandre ("Sacha") Stavisky was the sort of man to give his dress model wife any inkling of his real business activities. For 14 months she stayed in the women's prison of La Petite Roquette, awaiting trial. From time to time she was hauled out for questioning. Every one of her pleas for release was promptly refused. Last week French authorities decided that whatever Mme Stavisky knew was no longer dangerous for French statesmen still in power. She was released to see her children...
...made Frank Parish rich enough to buy the old Presidential yacht Mayflower for $16,000. The pipe line crawled northward out of Texas, headed for the Kansas City territory controlled by goateed, alert Henry Doherty. What happened after that and why, was the subject of a four-week criminal trial concluded last week in Chicago's Federal Courts. There Frank Parish and an associate were on trial for using the mails to defraud in selling Missouri-Kansas stock before the company toppled into receivership in 1932 with losses to investors of $35,000,000. Highlights of the trial...