Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irak. Fifteen miles northwest of Mosul, whence oil was first piped to the Mediterranean two months ago (TIME, Jan. 28), lies Tepe Gawra ("Great Mound"), its depths chewed by the shovels of industrious diggers. University of Pennsylvania scientists sank a trial trench in 1927, were convinced that the remains of 20 cities or settlements lay buried in layers, the most recent dating from 1500 B. C., the oldest lost in antiquity, older by far than Ur of the Chaldees (4000 B. C.). One city after another came to light. Last month diggers under Charles Bache of Philadelphia's University...
...aluminum. Latest and most vociferous of Aluminum's accusers is Baush Machine Tool Co., independent aluminum fabricator of Springfield, Mass. Baush lost a $9,000,000 damage suit against Aluminum in a New Haven court in 1933. Last year a U. S. Court of Appeals granted a new trial which was concluded last week in Federal Court in Hartford...
...which conducted Baush's case was the Stamford one of Cummings & Lockwood, of which Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings used to be a partner. Lawyer Cummings has had a feud with Aluminum since 1925 when he argued a case against the company and lost. At the long Hartford trial Lawyer Mark W. Norman of Mr. Cummings' old firm, and other Baush attorneys, once again sought to prove two stock charges: 1) that Aluminum tried to monopolize interstate trade in virgin aluminum through a price agreement with foreign importers of the metal; 2) that by taking enormous profits from...
Acquitted. Samuel Insull, 75, deposed utilities tsar; of a charge that he embezzled $66,000 from one of his holding companies to bolster his brother Martin's stock-trading account; by a jury in Chicago's Criminal Court. It was his second trial & acquittal following the fall of his $3,000,000,000 utilities empire (TIME, Dec. 5 et ante...
...When his wife is in the hospital he seduces a willing mountain girl, who afterwards dies. He takes his innocent nephew to a brothel. But when he rapes Virginia, 37-year-old spinster friend of his wife's, Charlie goes too far. Virginia has him arrested. At his trial Charlie breaks out on the witness stand, tells too much of the truth. He is sent to the penitentiary for a long term. As the story ends his pardon is imminent, but the nephew-narrator will not be there to greet him; he is leaving home for good, going North...