Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing to a Communist, bound to the principle of economic nationalism more firmly than any high tariff Tory. But until the aims of Russia's Five-Year Plan become realities Russia must trade with the outside world. The Anglo-Russian embargoes, results of the British engineers' propaganda trial two months ago, have been a serious blow to the Soviet. It is a safe bet that M. Litvinov will do nothing to disturb the Conference until he has finished his private bargaining with the British Foreign Office in an effort to have both embargoes lifted without loss of face...
...small oriental rug which was spread on the floor of a cell occupied by Saul Singer, executive vice president of the late Bank of United States (biggest U. S. bank ever to fail), serving three to six years for fenegling with the bank's funds. The same day trial began to recover assessments of $25 a share from 170 stockholders of the failed bank, and Mr. Singer faced the prospect of a temporary vacation from his soft-carpeted cell to testify...
...been dismissed allegedly for incompetence and falsifying his attendance record. As to the truth of the charges we have no knowledge, but the fact that the victim is chairman of the Teachers' Committee to Protect Salaries raises at least some unfortunate suspicions. Many teachers asked for a public trial for the victim--a reasonable request--and when this was refused by the board, began a demonstration. Here again the limits of decorum may have been passed, but surely it was stupid for the board to call policemen with clubs to cope with an outburst of indignant emotion, and still less...
...neither is it to be ignored as the psychological advantage of holding the lead at the start is great, and it is not unlikely that Coach Whiteside will devote at least two more paddles to them. The Varsity also paced the Jayvees over the first half mile of their trial today...
Divorce Denied. By Judge Charles A. Walsh to Ferdinand Frazier Jelke, 52, Manhattan broker, and Eugenia ("Nini") Woodward Jelke, 27, Alabama socialite; after a sensationally disgusting trial in Newport, R. I. Grounds: that both were guilty of extreme cruelty. Jelke's allegation that his wife was guilty of infidelity because she kept secret trysts with a mysterious major at the notorious Birmingham flat of a "Madame" Ethel Hartman was denied. The statements of Mrs. Hartman, who had been paid $5,200 for expenses to testify for Mr. Jelke and then testified for Mrs. Jelke instead, were discredited...