Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardest tasks for John Nields. He left a lucrative law practice when President Hoover raised him to the Federal bench in 1930. But despite his politics and heritage, neither side of the Weirton case doubted for a moment that Judge Nields would hand down a strictly impartial decision. The trial closed last November. After long deliberation, Judge Nields was ready with his opinion last week...
Ever since M. and Mme Venizelos were taken, wounded but miraculously alive, from their bullet-riddled limousine (TIME, June 19. 1933), Greeks have been expecting the trial of Gangster Georgios Karathanasios if it ever began to end in a revolution. Before his belated arrest last October, Gangster Karathanasios boasted openly in Athens' cafés: "The Government will protect me!" Witnesses against Prisoner Karathanasios were kidnapped, beaten and their homes in some instances bombed. As popular exasperation mounted, the Government last week appointed a new prosecutor who called 600 witnesses and announced "justice will be done...
...First Trial...
Yesterday the arrival of the April Hour Examination brought the experiment its first trial. Professor Mather does not feel however, that the five weeks since Midyears is a sufficiently long period for noticeable results. The eventual success or failure of this new plan will not be determined until this picked group has taken the Final Exam and the honor men's work has been compared with that done by the regular students...
Before this exhibition, however, several engineers from the Peter Pirsch Co of Kenosha, Wisconsin, are instructing the firemen how to operate this intricate machine. Yesterday morning it was sent out on a trial run, and on its return to the station, the men from Kenosha demonstrated how it could be spun in a 26 foot radius...