Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eighteen out of the 46 candidates for the Boylston and Lee Wade Speaking Prizes survived the first elimination trial yesterday afternoon in the New Lecture Hall. Each man recited a selection, about five minutes in length, before the following judges: W. S. Bowell, instructor in Public Speaking, Professor O. C. Lucy, head of the Department of Speech at the Oklahoma State Teachers' College, and F. C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking...
...pressagent of Manhattan's Roseland dance hall said I. O. U.'s would be accepted from dancers with bank books. Bayuk Cigars, Inc. messaged its salesmen: "In the temporary trial of our courage you must have faith in your country, in your job and in yourself. . . . Bayuk will continue full speed ahead...
...Blue Bird towed to the end of the course, 40 yd. wide and nine miles long with the measured mile in the centre, the sand was still rough and strewn with shells. Sir Malcolm's left wrist, sprained on the gearshift in a 240-m.p.h. trial spin last fortnight, was still sore. A thin dangerous haze had not entirely disappeared when Sir Malcolm decided he could wait no longer...
Last week, Charles Edwin Mitchell (hair whiter but neck, biceps and calves as toughly muscular as ever) was brought to trial. He could not see his judges-they were that inchoate multitude, the U. S. people. Verdict (uttered in a vast mumble of expletives as evening headlines followed morning): that Charles Edwin Mitchell, as chairman of the largest bank in the U. S.,† had been a thoroughly wicked banker...
...trial was not the kind which is explained in any handbook of civics. It took place in the headlines and in Room 304 in the U. S. Senate office building where sits the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency. Defendant Mitchell had been charged with no crime. But had he failed to appear, he would have been clapped promptly into jail ("contempt of the Senate"). There was no attorney for the defense. There was, however, a prosecution. It consisted of 1) six to a dozen Senators and 2) a man quite as remarkable as any of the Senators, Ferdinand Pecora...