Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since the last week in November deals primarily with the law of agency and equity. The Scott Club will present the arguments for the plaintiff while the Lowell Club speakers will talk from the defendants' brief. The case involves a newspaper editor who was sued for libel, won the trial, and proceeded to demand recompensation from its owner for the costs of defending the newspaper...
...distinguished justice, who was recently appointed to the bench in Ohio, also holds the honor of being the first of her sex to preside over a first degree murder trial, and to pronounce the death sentence...
...leveled against the Honolulu police, composed of natives and headed by an elective officer. "The police situation is intolerable." Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr., district commander at the Pearl Harbor base, reported to the Navy Department. He contended that the service was ridden with politics. In the Massie rape trial, he declared, police officers worked harder for the defense than for the prosecution...
...Fortescue is ever brought to trial, few whites in Honolulu believed that she would be convicted of a part in the Kahahawai murder. U. S. residents might deplore the stupidity of her alleged crime and its bungling methods but most of them at heart fully sympathized with her desperation in behalf of her daughter's honor and were ready to give her their moral support. Last week no less a per son than Admiral William Veazie Pratt, Chief of Naval Operation in Washington seemed to give Lieut. Massie a friendly pat on the shoulder when he declared...
Heinrich Bruning did not wait for May. Last week he summoned Fascist Hitler to Berlin and made him a proposition: so that the Fatherland could present a united front to the world in this winter of her greatest trial, would Hitler agree to an extension of President von Hindenburg's term...