Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been standing in the snow outside since 5 p. m.- seven hours. To correspondents, some of the men sentenced to death looked "broken," others "nervous," as OGPU police took them to their cells. Were they really going to die? Occidental observers have been suspicious from the first that the trial was supreme propaganda, rehearsed in advance by prosecutor and prisoners, broadcast throughout Russia to convince peasants and proletarians that if the Soviet Government seems to get poor results at times the blame should be placed on "foreign plotters.'' A public shooting of all those condemned to death...
...prominent Frenchmen and Englishmen accused at the Red Trial in Moscow of trying to overthrow the Soviet State (see above) only the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, Privy Councillor of His Majesty George V, had admitted the charge up to last week...
...should prove sustained. There will be front-page articles for a week. Bishop Manning will refuse to prosecute. Clarence Darrow, trial lawyer and atheist par excellence will delight in protesting against charges of inducing to riot. Lindsey, a bit chastened, will contend that his indignation at being accused by the Bishop of writing "the most filthy, insidious and cleverly-written piece of propaganda ever published in behalf of lewdness, promiscuity, adultery and unrestrained sexual gratification" carried him away. The 3500 will continue behaving as well-groomed and decent citizens. The limelight will bestow its honors on everyone connected with...
...mere mystery-serial was "The Trial of Vivienne Ware." The trial itself was enacted for six consecutive nights in National Broadcasting Co.'s studio WJZ over the New Amsterdam Theatre at Times Square. It was reported in shrieking detail in the American each morning. Typical of Hearst smartness and enterprise was the casting of characters for the trial. Presiding judge was no obscure radio performer, but U. S. Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner, good friend of Publisher Hearst and a onetime supreme court justice in New York State. Prosecutor was Ferdinand Pecora, onetime chief assistant district attorney in Manhattan...
Suggestion for "The Trial of Vivienne Ware," which was promptly adopted for other Hearstpapers, came from the American's busy, owlish Editor Edmond D. ("Cobbie") Coblentz, longtime publisher of the San Francisco Examiner. He plucked the idea from a small news item from Copenhagen telling of the broadcast of a murder trial there. Writer Kenneth Ellis of the American's radio-news staff wrote the scenario, packed into it the stuff of which city editors' dreams are made: the knife thrown at Dancer Dolores Divine as she walks to the witness chair; the disappearance of the "mystery...