Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the case came to trial the insulted U. S. inspector was unshakable in his testimony. A U. S. judge in Hawaii fined the Coolidge $500. Last week in San Francisco the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the $500 paid. But meanwhile, in this complicated world, Dollar Lines has been taken over by the American President Line and the American President Line has the Government of the U. S. behind it. Net result: from the U. S. subsidized line to the U. S. inspector's employer, $500 for garbage inopportunely dumped...
...last week the D'Oyly Carters had given, at least once, every opera in their current repertory. Each production (The Pirates of Penzance, Trial by Jury, The Mikado, Iolanthe, H. M. S. Pinafore, Cox and Box, The Gondoliers, The Yeomen of the Guard, Patience) was velvety and letter-perfect as ever. To the irreverent, there might be something a trifle ritualistic about the performances, as though the matter in hand were sacred music rather than light opera; but the devout could only praise Heaven that nothing had been changed, that not a single present-day allusion had been adlibbed...
...caused by the fact that lanky "Bunny" Barnes has gained about ten pounds, throwing him out of the 155 pound class to wrestle in a heavier weight. Pete Illman, captain of his freshman team, will fill the weight Barnes has left. Bill Daughaday defeated Barnes in a trial match and Barnes defeated Tudor Gardiner which leaves the 165 and 175 pound weights to be decided between Barnes and Daughaday. Boston will as usual wrestle unlimited, with Gardiner as alternate...
Sixty-six-year-old Harold Fowler McCormick, millionaire head of the Chicago harvester clan, has recently been seriously ill with bronchopneumonia. Last week attorneys for Mrs. Olive Randolph Colby, Kansas City widow who is suing him for $2,000,000 (breach of promise), asked that the trial date be advanced. Reason: because of a crowded court calendar, the plaintiff saw "grave danger" that the defendant might not live until the case is reached...
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.--George Weinberg, star witness in the conspiracy trial of Tammany leader James J. Hines in New York today shot and killed himself in his home here, according to White Plains police...