Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the trial her letters were offered in evidence and attained wide publicity. Subsequent to the trial they came into my possession and have been carefully preserved. They are notable in that they quite counteract the sordid impression which one apparently gains from the cinema, and show the real tragedy of Miss Brown's unfortunate position during the last few weeks of her life. I am always willing to show these letters to anyone in whom Mr. Dreiser's book or the cinema has aroused interest...
...Bishop Cannon has brought a $500,000 libel suit against Congressman Tinkham. Also awaiting trial are the Bishop's $6,000,000 libel actions against the Hearst newspapers and their publisher as a result of stories about his second marriage...
...must face other trials. There are still the Federal and State matters of the Holston-Union National Bank in Knoxville. And there is still to be a trial in connection with the defunct Liberty Bank & Trust Co. of Nashville, whose president shot himself two weeks after it closed. But last week's sentence marked the complete deflation of a great southern hero, one who had attempted to build an empire on the pillars of politics, finance and the Press, who was once the youngest U. S. Senator (32), who was given the Distinguished Service Medal for his courageous actions...
...head of his department and announced that he wished to be arrested for embezzlement. His books were $200,000 short. The money was concealed in a safe place but Jean Tourenq would never tell where it was until he had been able to "show up the Treasury" at his trial...
...scandal, or was this a clever scheme to bluff the Government out of $200,000? Important men visited him in his cell last week, pleaded with him to give up the money or tell what he knew. Jean Tourenq hugged his knees and repeated his demand for a public trial...