Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With unruffled Eton candor Major Stanley rose to tell the House that Britain's new Dole system, after one month's trial, has proved so unpopular with Britain's proletariat that he found himself obliged to suspend it here and now. Brave Major Stanley went further, admitted himself completely routed. In cases where the new Dole has reduced payments to individuals, he said, they would not only be upped back to their former scale but Government would give them the sum withheld last month. In cases where the new Dole upped payments, recipients not only keep what...
Witness Edna Ferber has called it "chie" to attend the trial. Enzo Fiermonte declared it a "knock-out," while Dolly Madison of the Young Republicans brought her knitting and completed only three stitches. Clifton Webb called it "heart-breaking" and Jack Benny was assured "this was serious business." Lynn Fontanne thought Hauptmann a handsome young man, while the former Mrs. Jack Dempsey was sorry for him whether he was "guilty or not." Hence, whatever Cleric Burns, the interrupter on Tuesday, tried to say, seemed quite immaterial...
...Frances McDonald of the New York Goodwill Court, has pointed out that the Reverend's outbreak was more than an isolated incident, worthy of special note. In murder trial after murder trial, all over the land, courthouses have been swarmed with people who have no business there. Flemington was not unusual. In a French-revolution air, the courtroom was suffocated with people eating, people chewing, people drinking ginger ale from quart battles, people demonstrating in every conceivable fashion their contempt for the court. Mr. McDonald recalls an eminent alienist's examination of a row of 12 women at the Loeb...
...possession of literature advocating the acquittal of the Scottsboro prisoners. He is now touring the country in an effort to raise funds for the appeal of his case before the Supreme Court. Fifteen thousand dollars bail has been provided for him by the International Labor Defense, pending his trial...
...years ago Samuel Ferguson started to rent electric ranges "on trial" for 30? per week. Now he has more than 1,700 out and hundreds more have been sold. Last week he reported that the average domestic consumption of power jumped from 793 kwh. in 1933 to 858 kwh. last year. His latest innovation is to offer free current to customers who increase their consumption by certain amounts. Thus, if a householder boosts his meter reading 10 kwh. per month, he may have the next 50 kwh. without charge...