Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stalest bit of gossip-A President Pitches a Little Woo-was dated February 28, 1844. It related the old story of President John Tyler's below-decks necking with 20-year-old Julia Gardner when a gun blew up on the new U.S.S. Princeton during a trial run on the Potomac, killing Secretary of State Abel Parker Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer, Julia Gardner's father and two others. Wooer Tyler married the girl a few months later...
Sitting on the judicial bench for the trial were Justice Harold M. Stephens of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Judge Walter E. Treanor of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and Judge John C. Knox of the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Their decision was awarded not on the basis of the actual constitutionally of the law, but rather because of the superior quality of the arguments and briefs presented by the Powell Club...
Sitting as judicial bench for the "trial" will be Justice Harold M. Stepens, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; Judge Walter E. Treanor, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; and Judge John C. Knox, of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The argument is open to the public without charge...
...article (TIME, Dec. 12) described a Brooklyn divorce trial where the most important testimony concerned a gesture made by raising the hands to the forehead, extending the fingers like horns, and making an ugly face...
Then & there Harry Hopkins, cool and careful, took command of the situation. He met this attack on his weakest point with a drawling, good-humored retreat into modesty and sincerity, a patient implication that he knew this was a political trial. He let go several disarming bursts of frankness, several amusing lapses into sturdy slang. Said he: "If any one has had intimate experience with business in the last six years, it is I. I have bought and sold millions and millions of goods. I have negotiated with businessmen on hundreds and thousands of deals. I have always had employes...