Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hardworking George Berry lost his Senate primary race to Tennessee's Attorney-General Tom Stewart (of Scopes "monkey trial" fame). After Nominee Stewart had gone through the formality of being elected November 8, Senate Financial Clerk Charles F. Pace cut George Berry off the Senate payroll. Clerk Pace assumed that Mr. Berry was not a lame duck but a dead duck, that his tenure as an appointed Senator ended on the election of his successor instead of limping on until the new Congress meets (January 3) and regular Senators-elect are sworn...
Fortnight ago Mme Skobline was brought to trial. Over 60 witnesses trooped to the stand and piled up evidence against her. She said, among other things, that her husband "waited for her" outside a dress shop for an hour and a half the day de Miller disappeared. Last week, although the fate of General de Miller has never been conclusively established, she was convicted of aiding in his kidnapping and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor, ten subsequent years of exile from Paris. Said La Plevitskaia, tears rolling down her cheeks: "I am alone in the world and completely...
...undertook to clarify it. In doing so, he volunteered the most revealing statement yet made on the subject. The President, said Mr. Early, has not decided whether to expand Rearmament at all. This amounted to saying that U. S. citizens lately have been gazing at nothing but a huge trial balloon. Not even this, however, was the most astonishing thing in the Administration's Rearmament fuss...
...know whom and where the U. S. expects to fight with an expanded Army. Just as big a question after the President's press conference last week was whether he was talking politic bosh with "pay-as-you-go," or whether he was about to haul down his trial balloon, restore Messrs. Craig and Leahy to command, and reduce Rearmament from big talk to a small practical matter for Army, Navy and budget...
...York Times, a Rupert Hughes novel, We Live but Once, an old hatbox- these and other heterogeneous waste materials the Clifton (N. J.) Paper Board Co. converts into paperboard for corrugated shipping containers, folding cartons, shoe boxes. Last week, after a few trial runs, the company's newly modernized $2,000,000 factory was ready for full-blast operation. Clifton turned out 12,000 tons of paperboard in 1932; the plant is now good for 125,000 tons a year...