Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people in the honesty of the Government [is] a crime for which punishment can never atone. . . . Warren Harding was a man of delicate sense of honor, of sympathetic heart, of transcendent gentleness of soul ... of passionate patriotism ... of deep religious feeling." ¶ After a year's trial President Hoover last week exiled dial telephones from the White House...
...Caldwell was in a much worse fix legally than Col. Lea. In the first place he was flat broke. In the second public sentiment was more bitterly arrayed against him. Last week at Nashville he went on trial for fraudulent breach of trust. The charge was that he had substituted inferior securities in his Bank of Tennessee as collateral for county deposits without getting, as agreed, the county's permission for the substitution. Overruled was his plea for a postponement of his trial on the ground that the Horton impeachment case inflamed public opinion against him. Fortnight ago Governor...
...this Colossus of Britain were a monstrous swindler and a mean cheat, what Court, what Law would be so mighty as to overawe or punish him? Last week in the ancient, musty Guildhall of London, Lord Kylsant was brought to trial before a man even more impressive than himself. Without the consent of this awful man (always readily granted) the King of England himself cannot enter his own City of London. The Awful Man is Sir William Phené Neal, Lord Mayor of London. Sir Phené Neal is also Chief Magistrate of the City of London. In his great...
Four months ago occurred the debacle to which the trial of Lord K. (except for its pomp and circumstance) was anticlimax. At that time the preferred shareholders of White Star Line, all of whose common stock was held by Royal Mail, discovered that their own company was in horrid condition and Royal Mail was worse off. Lord Kylsant, controller of 34 shipping companies and 2,770,000 tons of craft, was roundly vilified by the shareholders (TIME...
...were the guests of J. P. Morgan '89, the Crimson oarsmen seemed ready for a week of really hard rowing, since the coming nine days are all that intervene before the inter-collegiate classic regatta at New London a week from next Friday. With the possibility of a time-trial tomorrow if the weather holds good, Whiteside sent his men to the boats this morning as soon as examinations were over...