Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sitting as judicial bench for the trial will be Federal Justices Harold M. Stepons of Washington, Walter E. Treanor, and John C. Knox of New York...
...YORK--Four radio stars, Gracie Allen, George Burns, Jack Pearl, and Kenny Baker, were subpoenaed by Federal authorities today to testify at the trial of Jack Benny, radio and screen comedian, on a smuggling charge...
Nazi officials barred the public and foreign newsmen from the trial, permitted German correspondents to attend only "on certain days" and, at first, attempted to keep the charges on which the prisoners will be sentenced a secret. Finally, they approved a communiqué which announced that the defendants had "agitated against the political and economic aims of the Nazi State and grossly insulted the leading personalities of the Third Reich...
Chief figure in the trial is Ernst Niekisch, a courageous anti-Nazi, who has ridiculed and opposed the policies of Adolf Hitler since the early days when the Nazis fought their political battles on the streets. A onetime schoolteacher, later an author and publisher, Niekisch took a leading part with famed Revolutionary Kurt Eisner in establishing the postWar, short-lived Bavarian Soviet State. When the Nazis came to power, his argument that both Germany and Russia were authoritarian and anticapitalistic and therefore should work together economically had numerous backers in the Nazi Party, chiefly among the followers of Hitler...
...February Hill (1934). First mentioned for production by Sam H. Harris in 1935, the play went unproduced for three years, after a Fall River, Mass, woman, charging that February Hill maligned members of her family, sued Author Lincoln for $100,000. So far the case has not come to trial...