Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statesmen fully alive to the burden, political and military, of U. S. responsibility for 7,083 islands half a world away, with U. S. sugar producers equally dismayed by the flood of duty-free sugar coming thence, Congress at last offered the Philippines their freedom, after a ten-year trial period. Out from under the first offer Philippine politicians managed to wriggle. When it was renewed last spring, and served up on a silver platter by Franklin Roosevelt himself, the Philippines did not have the heart to refuse...
Possessors of the document were warned not to reveal the booklet's contents "to any newspaper, as all news of this trial has been suppressed by order of court." There followed in strict legal form the record of a case in which one John Doe, tramp, was tried for the "kidnap and murder" of a 20-month-old child named Charles A. Limberg Jr. on the night of March 1, 1932 near Hoaxwell, N. J. Attorney for the defense convinced a jury that the child had wandered out of his house of his own accord, could have died...
Meantime, Boatbuilder John H. Curtis and Sheriff John H. Curtiss made their bits of pre-trial news. Shortly after the baby disappeared, Mr. Curtis went up from Norfolk, Va. to tell Col. Lindbergh that he was in touch with the kidnappers. When the child's body was found, Curtis renounced his story, was convicted of obstructing justice. He was just barely kept out of jail by Lawyer W. Lloyd Fisher of Flemington. In the past two years he and Lawyer Fisher have grown to be fast friends. Flabbergasted was Friend Fisher, now an associate in Hauptmann's defense...
...Curtis's conviction. For weeks newspapermen have grumbled at the price this official put upon his good nature. Last week Governor Moore strongly rebuked him for accepting "donations" from newshawks at the standard rate of $10 for a downstairs seat or $5 for an upstairs seat at the trial. Sheriff Curtiss righteously protested that the "donations" were to be used for "fixing up" the courthouse for the trial. The Governor took the starch out of this protest by revealing that New Jersey had already appropriated $15,000 to cover all trial expenses, would appropriate more if needed...
...eventful evening of the trial, the Pollock Club, representing the plaintiff, will compete against the Wilson Club. The semi-finals of the competition, which lasts through the three years of Law School training, were held last November. At that time the Pollock Club defeated the Story Club, and the Wilson Club was given the decision over the Warren Club...