Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most difficult decisions of its career. It had to decide what to do with General Jose Sanjurjo, the brave, paunchy Monarchist who, fortnight prior, had seized Seville in an attempt to put Prince Juan Carlos, third son of ex-King Alfonso, on the throne (TIME, Aug. 22). On trial before the Supreme Court in Madrid, General Sanjurjo lived up to his reputation for indifference in the face of danger. He listened quietly while old Francisco Bergamin, Spain's Clarence Darrow, argued that his coup had not been a "consummated revolt,'' for which the penalty is death...
...South America, Playboy Richard Joshua Reynolds, 26, hurried home to Winston-Salem, closeted himself with family lawyers who told him what they knew about the death of his brother Smith, for which Smith's widow, the former Libby Holman, and his best friend Albert ("AB") Walker are awaiting trial. "R. J." Jr. read the coroner's inquest testimony, then announced: "In view of all the facts available at this time, I believe my brother's death was murder." A New York Sun newsman asked heavy-jowled Col. Jacob Ruppert, brewer and owner of the New York Yankees...
...India, Premiers Frederick Charles Alderdice of Newfoundland. Howard Unwin Moffat of Southern Rhodesia, Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga of South Africa and Vice President Sean Thomas O'Kelly of the Irish Free State. Before them were twelve bundles of closely-typewritten paper representing twelve bilateral trade agreements over a five-year trial period?the result of four weeks of haggling and scratching at Ottawa's Imperial Economic Conference. One by one. smiling woodenly, the delegates signed...
...company (for $18,000,000 plus $500,000 annually for five years) in favor of the bankers. The Press knows him as a good friend of Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York who week-ended at the Blumenthal estate in Larchmont last fortnight between sessions of his trial at Albany (see p. 14). Though more at home in a hotel than a courtroom, Fixer Blumenthal made news last week because of his law suits. As owner of $25,000 of Paramount Publix Corp. bonds. Fixer Blumenthal sued that company to set aside an agreement by which Paramount last...
...Senator Simon Guggenheim of Colorado, copper tycoon, was in town for pleasure, not to stimulate Montana's somnolent copper industry. The newshungry also learned by bulletin what they could about the results of the Olympic Games, the gist of President Hoover's acceptance speech, the trial of Mayor Walker...