Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corporal Robert Osman, U.S. A. was last year court-martialed in the Canal Zone for violating the 96th Article of War for "willfully and feloniously" communicating military secrets to persons not entitled to receive them (supposedly Communists). Cause of the trial was discovery of an undelivered letter allegedly sent by Osman to a girl in Brooklyn, a letter which contained a military plan of Fort Sherman. Result of the trial was that Corporal Osman was condemned to two years at hard labor, fined $10,000 (to be worked off at the rate of $500 a year). Last week...
...factory, got the authority for taking over Reedsville's output knocked out of the bill. When the bill went .to the Senate, that gallant body put the authority back in. Secretary Ickes remarked acidly that evidently Mrs. Roosevelt's "Socialistic project" was to be given a trial...
...Causes. They Shall Not Die is an angry review of the Scottsboro Case. On the premise that the rape charge against the nine young blackamoors was a frame-up, the play doggedly follows the pattern of the news from the alleged attack aboard a freight train through the first trial to the Supreme Court and on to the second trial. In fact a Manhattan lawyer named Samuel Leibowitz desperately defended the Negroes against a death penalty. In the play a Manhattan lawyer named Nathan G. Rubin (Claude Rains) does the same job, emerging in a final courtroom scene...
Gactano Salvemini, Laure de Bosis Professor of Italian Literature, is one of the seven Italians charged by the Italian government with setting off a bomb in St. Peter's Cathedral last June 25 an Associated Press dispatch states. Four of the seven Italians are now under arrest and awaiting trial in Rome; two others along with Professor Salvemini are now out of Italy...
...beneficent act of God, with an Aaron Burr as the Divine instrument, is somewhat startling to us today. But it was accepted with delirious joy by a majority of our forefathers a hundred and thirty-odd years ago. . . ." Strict-interpretationist, McConaughy thinks the Constitution has never been given a trial, says it has been warped from the start by the Supreme Court into a shield for special privilege. He starts an elusive hare when he points out that banksters are no new phenomenon. In 1819 the combined "borrowings" of directors and employes of the City Bank of Baltimore exceeded...