Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faster than any coastwise freighter, can lighter it from Hoboken to New Orleans in six days for half the rail fare. The Shipping Board handed down a last-minute decision while Seatrain New York was fidgeting in New York Harbor: Seatrain Lines Inc. will be suffered a six-month trial period. The vessel cleared South with a cargo of cotton manufacturing machinery, paper, beans, steel, olive oil, whale oil, soap grease, soap stock, cement...
Meanwhile Havana was ominously quiet. One Jose Davila Valdez, with both his arms blown off, went on trial before a military court charged with setting off the bomb that maimed him. On his return from another military trial. Socialite Ignacio Mendoza de la Torre slipped from his guards, escaped...
...jury" against the Senator. When informed of this call the judge promptly declared a mistrial, cleared the alternate juror after his colleagues denied anything improper in his conduct. The talkative juror, who had been drinking, was held for possible contempt of court and Moose Davis asked to have his trial set over until after election...
...downward tariff revision. Congressional investigation of the B. E. F.'s ejection from Washington, the establishment of local boards of ''patriotic citizens'' throughout the nation to pass on cases of needy veterans for whom the full Bonus would be cashed instanter. Observers sensed that his last proposal was a trial balloon sent up by the national ticket. Robert Low Bacon, 48, oldtime Harvard crewman, is the son of the late Robert Bacon. Ambassador to France and Secretary of State. He is Wet. an easy-going but dogged foe of immediate Bonus payment. In Congress he has been regular, unspectacular...
...League is on trial," said President de Valera. "There is a suspicion abroad that little more than lip service is being paid to the fundamental principles upon which the League was founded. There is a suspicion that the action of the League in the economic sphere can be paralyzed by the pressure of national interests. There is a suspicion, gentlemen, that if the hand that is raised against the Covenant of the League is sufficiently strong it can smite with impunity...