Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City. The Japanese quit the League of Nations over Manchuria. Germany fell under Adolf Hitler's sway. Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated President of the U. S. The U. S. went off the gold standard. Beer came back. And still the National Diversified Corp. fraud trial ran on & on in Manhattan Federal Court...
After six months bald, hawk-eyed Judge John Munro Woolsey had tried to speed the longest U. S. criminal trial a bit by convening court a half-hour earlier each morning. That was after Chief Defendant Otto E. Goebel went on the stand every court day from March 30 to May 18. When he finished testifying he was 25 Ib. lighter and his hair had turned snowy white. The charge against him, his two sisters-in-law (Misses Irene & Elizabeth Flautt) and six salesmen was scandalous but simple. Goebel and associates had succeeded in bilking $3,000,000 from...
Last week, when 15,000 pages of testimony had been taken and the trial had passed into its record-breaking 109th court day,* Judge Woolsey turned the case over to the jury. Before he had them locked up he drew protests from the defense by declaring "One of the interesting things in this case is that we have been in a corporate fairyland, and you never could tell when around the corner you might meet an appreciated asset or an ingeniously contrived surplus...
...Japan's dazzling conquest in Manchuria who was right: the few Japanese statesmen and financiers who stood out against war or the youths who murdered them? In Tokyo last week 13 youths, Blood Brothers of the patriotic murder sect led by strapping Priest Nissho Inouye, were brought to trial with him. At his bidding they assassinated last year ex-Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye (who argued that the Japanese budget could not support a war) and Japan's No. 1 financier, Baron Dr. Takuma Dan (convinced to the roots of his gentle soul that the Mitsui business empire...
...Courtney Letts Stillwell Borden. 34; Chicago socialite once previously married; in Reno. Died. Roscoe Conkling ("Fatty") Arbuckle, 46, globular oldtime cinemactor; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Although acquitted of manslaughter after the death of one Virginia Rappe eleven years ago, the malodorous evidence brought out at the trial dropped him to obscurity; resulted in the appointment of President Harding's Postmaster General Will H. Hays as public apologist for Hollywood. Died, Albert Russel Erskine, 62, president of Studebaker Corp.; by his own hand (pistol); in South Bend. Alabama-born, he quit school at 16, turned bookkeeper, climbed...