Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among the bootees not as a Communist but as a Progressive, oldtime foe of the conservative parties. Finns have regarded the Communist kidnappings with marked complacency, but kidnapping their George Washington was another matter. Something had to be done. Detectives worked furiously. Last week eight persons were brought to trial, the spotlight was fixed on the chief conspirators: Major General K. Martii Wallenius, former Chief of the Finnish General Staff, and Colonel Kuussaari, head of the Staff's mobilization section. In court last week the prosecutor slid over, the details of the kidnapping attempt, concentrated on the state...
...have upset many an industry. Chadbourne. That smart Lawyer Chadbourne realizes sugar is in the same bowl with many another industry was shown in a speech he delivered at last week's Brussels meeting. "All industries," said he, "have transgressed good economic laws. . . . The capitalistic system is on trial. If you think the people who are running the industries of the world can by reason of this greed bring about such depressions as this and then not promptly take steps to mend them, no matter what the sacrifice to individuals may be, you are mistaken...
Through all Wall Street a story has recently made its whispered way. It is the story of a member of the Exchange who was summoned before the governors for his supposed connection with the recent decline in Fox Films, who came through the harrowing trial by statistics completely exonerated, who used columns of figures to prove Fox, at the time, was overvalued, that he had spread rx> malicious reports...
...lived in Brooklyn for a while, then in Chicopee Falls, Mass., then in Chicago. Mary was the determined, aggressive one of the lot. She learned to play the violin, at twelve played in a concert. Then she studied piano, practiced patiently five hours a day. An amateur performance of Trial by Jury in Chicago perhaps hinted first at her dramatic talents. But she wanted to be a singer. To Paris she went, lived with a French family, studied diligently. Her debut at the Opera Comique came at a time when she was practically penniless. She had been engaged...
...Judge Lindsey, who then loudly told the Bishop he would come to the Cathedral to hear him reply. The Bishop requested a police guard-and replied. Judge Lindsey may yet get the personal debate with Bishop Manning he desires. He subpoenaed the Bishop to appear at his disorderly conduct trial this week...