Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was danger of a lynching at Hernando, Miss, a month ago when three black bucks were put on trial for raping a 16-year-old school girl. Mississippi's Adjutant General Thomas Grayson thought he saw a way to avoid it. He asked the father of the girl to write a note to the mob. Clyde Collins ''consented with reluctance to let the law take its course,'' asked the mob to disperse. Short time later the Negroes were convicted, sentenced to hang...
This play is the first production of the Unnamed Players, and it is the first time that "Cymbeline" has been presented in Boston for a century. According to the players, they have "quietly buried the untidy, dull historical plot; what remains is the fine central incident, the trial of Imogen's chastity...
...transactions--and the evidence on this point is by no means clear--he was certainly no more guilty than many of his colleagues, none of whom are behind bars as yet. It is also difficult to see just what will be accomplished by hauling Insult back to Chicago for trial, for if he received a prison sentence it would almost surely be a death sentence. The real crime of which Insull is guilty is not of fraudulently manipulating securities but of doing it unsuccessfully; and the energies of the government should not be concentrated on driving a sick man from...
...like a quarter back on the football team who has to get the ball down the field in some way or other, whether it be over, under, around, or through the opponents,' Nothing will be accomplished by standing still, and he is obliged to use a policy of trial and error. His action on the airmail question was obviously wrong, but this was an impetuous move. Roosevelt had had reports from inspectors that the air transport companies were practising all sorts of fraud in the way of putting heavy stones in the mail sacks and weighing them three or four...
...latest examples, the Department of Justice did not write any letters or levy an assessment but decided to put the facts before the Federal Grand Jury so as to get indictments and bring to trial those whose tax returns are believed to have deviated from...