Word: trial
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lynching," but Alabama's Supreme Court had upheld the verdict of the lower bench. Gratified were Liberals when the U. S. Supreme Court handed down its opinion. Seven-to-two it decided that the Scottsboro Negroes, "young, illiterate, ignorant," had not had adequate legal representation at their original trial, were entitled to another. "Even intelligent persons," said Associate Justice George Sutherland, writing the Court's majority opinion, "cannot guide themselves through the intricacies of legal procedure and protect their rights." The opinion went further to brand the trial, with its militia guardsmen, court-appointed defense and surcharged atmosphere...
...Athletic Committee to make Phillips Brooks House an organizing center for the athletics of all men living outside the Houses is a sound practical plan for bringing commuters more fully into the life of the college. It is a plan which ought to work well and which deserves a trial...
...decision of the United States Supreme Court ordering a new trial for the eight Negroes convicted in the Scottsboro case can hardly be less acceptable to the nation at large than to the editors of the New Masses and the Daily Worker. The New York Herald-Tribune probably reflected preoccupied public opinion on the subject when it headlined its story on the pronouncement as "Red Riot at High Court"; Communist ballyhoo of the case excuses editors and public alike for confusing justice with Communist propaganda. In this respect the case threatens to equal the "Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti...
...gaining allies for the ever-threatening revolution. In this instance their championship of the Scottsboro boys appears to have been at best ill-advised. The race prejudice which grips the South did not need the addition of a red-phobia to assure the accused Negroes of an unfair trial, but the Communists increased the difficulties of their proteges when they made an issue of the affair...
...gaining allies for the over-threatening revolution. In this instance their championship of the Scottsboro boys appears to have been at best ill-advised. The race prejudice which grips the South did not need the addition of a red-phobia to assure the accused Negroes of an unfair trial, but the Communists increased the difficulties of their proteges when they made an issue of the affair...