Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day, while the trial of McGee's brother for the same crime was beginning, they returned with their verdict. It was Death...
States, too, were last week joining the anti-kidnap war. California passed a bill fixing the death penalty or life imprisonment for kidnappers who harm their victims.* In Albany, Governor Lehman urged New York's Legislature to make kidnapping punishable by death unless the victim is returned before trial; to make it a felony to pay ransom or withhold information about a kidnapping case...
...incident passed and the Chaplin triumph continued with thousands of Japanese cinemaddicts shrilling a welcome at every station. Only last week, when the assassins of Premier Inukai were put on trial, did Cinemactor Chaplin learn with amazement that he too had been marked for Death...
Actually Cinemactor Chaplin is a subject of British George V. Throughout the trial last week all the accused petty officers showed themselves ignorant of world affairs, fanatically intent on just one thing: the resurgence of Japan which they described as "Great Asianism. . . . Everywhere the Asiatic races are oppressed by the whites. ... It is Japan's mission to form a great Asiatic confederation and liberate Asia...
Month ago 14 members of the "Blood Brotherhood" who assassinated two prominent Japanese of pacifist tendencies last year were placed on trial (TIME, July 10). They still sat in court last week with wicker baskets over their heads, as is the Japanese rule in case of capital crimes. What the police feared was another wave of assassinations staged by patriotic youths who think that Japan has not yet seized enough Chinese soil. Since the present Government is honestly trying to grab all it safely can, Tokyo police, who are sometimes patriotically lenient toward would-be assassins, made real and strenuous...