Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill Saunders '39 in the 125 pound group. Joe Passonneau '42 of the 135 pounders won a decision over Don Scorgie '41, as did Jack Bragg '41 from Langden Mead '39. Jack Bronston '42 lost a decision to Horace Bresler '41 of the same group. In the second trial bout Joe Passonneau won his bout again, this time on a technical knockout over Dick Mudge '39 in the first round...
...civil suits, obtained four settlements in workers' favor by consent decrees. At the maximum, defendants in civil actions may be compelled to pay their employes twice the difference between substandard wages and the wages due under the act. In practice, when an employer consents to settle without trial, he may get off by paying the actual difference (plus court costs...
...last week was also punctuated by a speech from the leading Republican Presidential possibility. Scene was the Manhattan courtroom of General Sessions Judge Charles C. Nott Jr. There 62-year-old Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines, a New Deal patronage dispenser in Manhattan, was on trial for serving as prop and protection dispenser for Harlem's $20,000,000-a-year numbers racket (TIME, Aug. 29)* There, too, 37-year-old Republican District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey was on trial for his political life...
EXAMINATIONS are unconstitutional. "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to SPEEDY AND PUBLIC trial by an impartial jury . . . CRUEL AND UNUSUAL punishment shall NOT be inflicted...
...clear after a year's trial that worldly fortune has not been an ardent suitor of President Conant's American Civilization Plan. As tangible evidence of the Plan's success, there were only eleven hardy undergraduates, who filed in to take the Bliss Prize examination last November. True, it has made some striking contributions: a notable reading list in history, a series of brilliant lectures, a group of earnest scholars who have enriched the Harvard community. Yet it has had meagre success in the attainment of a primary goal, which was to lure students into the realms of extra-curricular...