Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles Howard Kline is the only man ever to be Mayor of Pittsburgh twice in succession. Last week he was convicted of malfeasance in office after an investigation into city purchasing methods begun last year (TIME, July 6). The trial was held at Butler, Pa., a change of venue having been granted the defendant because of high feeling about the case in Pittsburgh. Also convicted was onetime City Supplies Director Bertram L. Succop. Wartime infantry colonel, whom Mayor Kline dismissed when the investigation began but whose testimony at the trial exonerated the Mayor from "conspiracy" and "evil intent...
Robert Raymond White '32, of New York City, was elected captain of the Varsity 150-pound crew last night after the final time trial before the Yale-Princeton race Saturday. He prepared at Dwight, stroked the second 150's last season, and has been rowing at number 4 regularly this spring...
...TIME, Aug 3). Last week the new government of President Agustin Justo tried to suppress the Davila manifesto, stigmatized it as revolutionary. Senor Davila, who thought it best to quit his handsome home and go into hiding, declared in his manifesto, "Present conditions in Chile warrant a trial of State Socialism adapted to our national peculiarities. If we can adopt the useful residue of the French revolution, to mold our primitive political system, without taking a Bastille, without decapitating a king, without bloody tribunals, has not the moment arrived to try what demonstrates itself to be utilizable, without having...
...valuable little beast to the U. S. is the muskrat, which yields $25,000,000 worth of pelts per year. But in Great Britain the muskrat is a trial & tribulation. Last month Parliament passed a law condemning to death every British muskrat-at-large. Last week with trap, gun, gas and spade England's Minister of Agriculture Sir John Gilmour and Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Scotland, set forth to destroy all the muskrats in the United Kingdom...
...York, on trial for his life for murder, William J. Turner, 21, pulled out a deck of cards, began playing solitaire. The judge stared, sent the jury out of the courtroom, protested. Attendants confiscated the cards. The judge spoke briefly on courtroom conventions. Said Defendant Turner: "What do you think I am going to do-sit here...