Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the international union acted by removing pudgy, hawk-nosed Sam Kaplan as boss of Local 306. The removal came while Kaplan was defending himself and his union rule in Manhattan Supreme Court on a receivership-and-damage suit filed by four members of Local 306. During the trial the judge discovered that Defendant Kaplan and two bodyguards were armed with pearl-handled revolvers, wrathfully ordered them to check their weapons with the court clerk. Witness after witness at the trial testified that Kaplan's men had "socked" them for speaking out at union meetings, had even threatened...
After Kaplan's removal from office the suit was temporarily suspended for the judge to arbitrate the amount of settlement. Next week Kaplan and 22 henchmen go on trial in Manhattan on indictments charging coercion and using physical violence against critics of Local...
MASEFIELD (John) Trial of Jesus. Mint...
...trial in Manhattan last week for using the mails to defraud were Lynn E. W'olfe, onetime auditor of Joseph Pulitzer's estate, and Murray Olf, stock promoter. They were charged with mulcting investors in Southern Cities Supply Corp. of $1,700,000. An unexpected witness against them in Federal Court was Illinois' white-maned Representative Henry Thomas Rainey, Democratic floor leader of the House. Democrat Rainey's story...
Last week the Soviet State began the job of avenging Martyrs Pavel & Fedor. Their murderers were rounded up, herded into court and a typical Soviet "propaganda trial" began. Presumably several of the knife-handy villagers will be sentenced to "the supreme measure of social defense": Death by shooting. Orators all over Russia will point the moral, urge good children to continue to peach and if necessary die for Communism, sure that they will be avenged...