Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shades of a happier, more opulent day hover over the trial of Ervin F. Brown, a member of the defunct Hoover bureaucracy; his naive confessions on the witness stand are of the stuff from which "Of Thee I Sing" was made. Mr. Brown was chief investigator for the Immigration Bureau of the Department of Labor in New York, and he is accused of accepting bribes from a criminal alien who was awaiting deportation. Brown's bribe-taking operations, however, do not compare with his other activities. A generous man, he singled out deserving Republicans for reward; these men were made...
Unfortunately these haleyon days could not last forever. Mr. Hoover retired to become the squire of Palo Alto, and Mr. Brown awoke one morning to find himself on trial for accepting bribes. But the unkindest cut of all was when his mistress turned on him and became the chief witness for the prosecution. Poor Mr. Brown's cup is filled to overflowing. As his lawyer so feelingly put it to the jury, "Subconsciously, somewhere in his mind, Brown hopes to be a hero in the mind of the woman he loves. Love is a strange thing indeed. He is married...
Professor Copeland has been thinking about this orthographical problem since the early days of the Lindbergh trial, and was stimulated into action by a smug letter of justification from the Herald. So whenever students gather in his rooms he tells them about it, and quotes a significant passage from Edgar Allen...
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...Chicago, Edward Weiss, on trial for complicity in torturing Theodore Zutaut to death, begged his attorney to change his plea to guilty in exchange for a sentence of 14 years in prison, was interrupted by the return of the jury with a verdict of acquittal...