Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expressed his indignation. Said he: "A challenge to the authority of the United States Government has been met, swiftly and firmly. . . . Government cannot be coerced by mob rule. ... It is my sincere hope that those agitators who inspired yesterday's attack upon Federal authority may be brought speedily to trial. . . . There can be no safe harbor in the U. S. for violence. . . . Order and civil tranquillity are the first requisites in the great task of economic reconstruction...
...Such a trial as could revolve only around a fanatic vortexed in Paris last week around Dr. Paul Gorgulov who was caught red-handed assassinating the President of the Republic, Paul Doumer (TIME, May 16). The strange proceedings so fascinated a group of young French lawyers that they stealthily occupied the press box one day when it was vacant, tried to hold it against the furious assaults of newshawks, had to be ousted by the police...
...builds a new life for her, makes her a star while she blandishes a famed director. The director's wife commits suicide, blaming Genevieve Tobin in a note which a blackmailer finds. In retrieving the note Pat O'Brien is obliged to kill the blackmailer. At the trial, Genevieve Tobin sacrifices fame to save...
...lover Thomas William Scott Stephen after a cocktail party in her West End flat. One dawn last month a physician, hastily summoned, found Mrs. Barney, whose husband is a U. S. radio crooner, anxiously kissing Stephen's cooling corpse. A revolver lay nearby. While Mrs. Barney awaited trial her father. Sir John Mullens, was reported to be liquidating the Mullens gems to raise the huge fee of her defender, lean Sir Patrick Hastings, the Clarence Darrow of Great Britain. Last week Sir Patrick was in fine fettle. After witnesses had testified to Mrs. Barney's love for Stephen...
During the trial, which ended last week, the prosecutor produced no evidence linking Senora Mariana de la Torre Mendoza to the attempted crime but proved up to the hilt that she has often voiced antagonism to President Machado. That was enough for the court martial. It sentenced all the accused to 14 years penal servitude each...