Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bishop James Cannon, Jr., and his secretary, Ada L. Burroughs, go on trial in District of Columbia Supreme Court tomorrow on charges of violating the cor- rupt practices act in connection with contributions to a fund to defeat Alfred E. Smith for the Presidency...
Last week Chicago got back one runaway Insull. He was not Samuel but his brother, Martin J., finally extradited from Canada to stand trial for embezzlement of $365,000 in connection with the $2,000,000,000 collapse of the Insull Middle West Utilities empire...
Excited crowds at the trial of the four antiFascists last week heard the prosecutor demand the same penalty, insisting that one of the real instigators of the plot was the anti-Fascist exile Professor Gaetano Salvemini of Harvard. (From his Cambridge sanctuary Professor Salvemini promptly denied complicity.) But black-shirted judges no longer fear for their regime. Conspirator Capasso was acquitted. Claudio Cianca was let off with 18 years in jail. The other two got 30 years. Great tears of thankfulness rolled down their cheeks as the three prisoners were led from their iron cage to begin sentence...
...Lyman Beecher had become a "New School" Calvinist, believing both in free will and predestination. In 1835 when he was president of Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati. Lyman Beecher was tried for heresy. In a day when a theological squabble never failed to titillate the public, his trial and acquittal were front-page news all over the U. S. His children...
...convincing soft-hearted Beecher that he had actually wrecked Tilton's home through not having been on guard against Mrs. Tilton. Trapped into signing a memorandum which sounded like an admission of guilt, Beecher was sued by Tilton for alienation of affection. He was exonerated after a trial which cost him $118,000 (his church raised his salary to $100,000 for that year) and, as he said, took up more newspaper space than all the battles of the Civil...