Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately, no retraction can undo the incalculable harm, resulting from an error of this sort- but perhaps a few articles in your mag azine concerning the fact that Camden has more men working today in her 237 diversified indus trial plants than were working in those same plants in 1928, might serve to demonstrate to your readers that this city has some very credit able features...
Last week the Federal Farm Board went on trial for its life before the Senate Committee on Agriculture. Lifted for the first time was the cloak of official secrecy with which for 28 months it had guarded the details of the Board's wheat and cotton stabilization operations. Curious Senators poked roughly into facts and figures which Farm Boarders had long feared would damage their agency's economic prestige. What was disclosed served to intensify the industrial clamor for the Board to be abolished as a futile waster of public funds. Lobbyists for farm organizations were no less...
...night last August a peaked 12-year-old named Herbert Niccolls broke into a grocery store at Asotin, in southeastern Washington. Sheriff John L. Wormell, 72, went into the store after him. From his hiding place behind a pickle barrel, Herbert Niccolls shot & killed the aged officer. At his trial it was brought out the boy's father was in a hospital for the criminally insane. Already Herbert was something of a criminal prodigy: at nine he had stolen an automobile, and tried his hand at a mail robbery. For the latter offense he was jailed 15 months, later...
...citizen caught bearing arms or disobeying the orders of a "Storm Commander" should be shot without trial...
...trial last week Defendants Gotch et al pleaded, successfully, that the pictures were privileged as an exhibit "designed to deter criminal acts...