Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Crawford. But he stoutly denied the Middleburg murders, insisting he had left Virginia months before the crime. To his defense rushed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Virginia's Governor Pollard asked Massachusetts' Governor Ely to send Crawford down to stand trial. There were formal hearings. Boston witnesses upheld his alibi. Virginia witnesses knocked it down. A confession was introduced only to be repudiated. Governor Ely signed papers for George Crawford's return to Virginia- when suddenly, last week, in stepped the might and majesty of the Federal Government. Overnight George Crawford became...
...wholesaler assigned him by poultry racketeers. In The Bronx, one night early last month, police caught seven hoodlums vigorously banging sawed-off billiard cues against plate glass and fixtures, hurriedly releasing crates of fowl at the market of S. S. & B. Poultry Corp. The hoodlums were arrested, arraigned for trial last week. Soon the S. S. & B.'s proprietors - Hyman Blank, Samuel Shipper and Samuel Weiner, whose business had already been chased out of the Manhattan poultry market by gangster terrorism - went to District Attorney Samuel Foley of Bronx County, told him they preferred to have the case dropped...
...Italy and in Russia, the time has come for Dictator Hitler to purge the hotheads from his party and build a stable government. At the same time that the secret police was established, Nazi troopers were denied the right to make arrests on their own authority. Public trial of the outrages of Nazi hotheads might be a terrible black eye for the Government, hence the revival of the old military courts...
...which a principal character is named "Roos Martin." Last week the Manhattan Grand Jury indicted her on a charge of having threatened Bruce Barton with publishing the book if he did not pay her $50,000. At the same time Barton's lawyers moved for a quick trial of her $250,000 suit...
...knocking him to the floor. Soon Shoemaker's doctor came & sewed up Cohen's face. Next day Cohen tried in vain to get a warrant for Shoemaker's arrest on charges of assault & battery. First, Shoemaker agreed to waive his Congressional immunity and stand trial. Later he changed his mind. Said he: "If it were for myself alone, I wouldn't hesitate for I could beat the case without trouble. But a number of the members [of the House] are afraid if I waive immunity they will be bothered in the future by charges for little...