Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expert accountants wrestled with the problem of demonstrating to judge and jurors the financial intricacies of the Insull collapse. That job proved to be even more difficult than the long task of chasing Mr. Insull up & down the Aegean and practically shanghaiing him back to the U. S. for trial (TIME...
...less than 24? an hour, for working them more than 40 hours a week. Mr. Belcher's lawyer filed a demurrer. If Federal Judge William I. Grubb had decided against the defendant, U. S. v. Belcher would have been sidetracked into the District Court of Appeals for trial. But after a conference with lawyers for both sides, he put it on the main line to the Supreme Court by handing down an unwritten decision granting the demurrer on the grounds that Mr. Belcher was being deprived of his property without due process of law, that the Recovery Act unlawfully...
...courtroom in the pleasant Swiss city of Berne last week a world-wide idea went on trial. The idea; Jewry has long been plotting to overthrow all governments and replace them with a vast and tyrannical Jewish super-government...
...fact that the Protocols are still widely read and widely believed might well discourage Jews from putting much faith in a trial in Switzerland. The Protocols were effectively disposed of as fraudulent long ago, notably by the London Times in 1921, and by the Soviet Government which outlawed them in 1917. Based on old-wives' tales current three centuries ago, they have been shown to draw most heavily upon two obscure books of the mid-19th Century. First of these, published in Brussels in 1865, was a political attack on Napoleon III, written by a French lawyer named Maurice Joly...
...following were news: ¶ Last spring Joseph Randolph Nutt, onetime board chairman of Cleveland's closed Union Trust Co., was indicted on a charge of dressing up his bank's statement with a $10,000,000 deal with Oris Paxton Van Sweringen (TIME, April 23). Last week after a trial before Cleveland's Judge Paul Jones, a jury of eight men and four women pronounced Mr. Nutt not guilty. Said he: "My conscience is clear." ¶ When John Jeremiah Pelley went to Washington to head the new Association of American Railroads (TIME, Oct 1), it was a foregone conclusion that...