Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of his attack on the Constitutionality of the Recovery Act, an attorney for two Texas oil companies had mentioned to the Supreme Court the case of four oilmen jailed for violating a supposed provision of the Petroleum Code. A trial court ruled the provision unconstitutional. The Department of Justice prepared to appeal the decision only to discover that the provision was no part of the land's law. By some oversight it had been left out of the revised copy signed by President Roosevelt though included in printed copies circulated by the Petroleum Administration (TIME...
...tiny, rolypoly Baron Hewart. The other was the Lord High Chancellor, tall, severe, ascetic Viscount Sankey. Distinctly Gilbertian. with exactly the right lilt, is Lord Sankey's famed remark: "My first brief fetched two guineas-but afterward, roses, roses all the way!" Not since Sullivan set tunes to Trial by Jury has Justice provided a more diverting tale than that told on himself by Lord Sankey: ''When I became Lord High Chancellor and went to the office of my new post, I found a letter there stating that I must resign as a judge of the King...
...land where people's ordinary labors are thus the subject of compulsion, explosions of the full Bolshevik Terror automatically attend times of stress. Last week the chief drumhead court in Moscow was presided over by Judge Vassily Ulrich, famed during the British Engineers' Propaganda Trial (TIME, April 24, 1932). In a tome published last year by Dr. Karl Kindermann. a German research student who was arrested on suspicion by the Gay-pay-oo some years ago, he describes Judge Ulrich thus: "I was particularly fascinated by the loathesomely hideous face of the President of the Court, Ulrich. ... I immediately associated...
BABY'S BONES SHOWN AT TRIAL ALLEGED MURDER ON WEDDING...
...wooden water mains and sold pure and wholesome water for nearly 50 years but its "Discount & Deposit'' office promptly became the only private competitor of Hamilton's Bank of New York. The ways of Aaron Burr and his Manhattan Co. soon parted, he to high adventure and a trial for treason, the little water company to a long and honorable history...