Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second day of the trial Professor Ramzin concluded his confession with a four-hour address, bore out all the contentions of Prosecutor Krylenko, summed...
Significance. One effect of the trial last week was to turn popular suspicion in Moscow upon the local colony of foreign diplomats. "The trial throws new light on the espionage system here," declared The Moscow Worker. "The spies are not old-school snoopers with electric torches and disguises but honored gentlemen living in mansions guarded by the Soviet police and with limousines adorned by many-colored national flags"-i.e. embassy and legation pennants...
Most London editors denounced the 'trial as bare-faced fraud and propaganda, suggested that Professor Ramzin will never be shot, though his execution may be "officially announced." A large section of the Paris press demanded that Prime Minister Andre Tardieu recall the French Ambassador from Moscow, break off Russo-French relations-but M. Tardieu was not stampeded. Throughout the U. S., editors appeared puzzled by the goings on at Moscow, anxious but unable to believe them faked. Typically the New York Herald Tribune seemed to have faith that Professor Ramzin will actually be executed if convicted, but found inexplicable...
From 75,000 people-reputedly the biggest crowd that ever watched a sporting event in Spain-a roar went up. Paulino Uzcudun, Basque woodchopper who for several years has been an exacting and dangerous trial horse for U. S. heavyweights, rushed out of his corner in Montjuich Stadium, Barcelona, and tried to hit Primo Camera, Italian Brobdingnag. His swing was short. Camera stretched out a long left hand and set him back on his heels. Squat, hairy-chested, his gold teeth gleaming in his dwarfish face, Paulino in his perpetual crouch, with his elbows swinging, resembled some kind of beetle...
Every once in a while there breaks a news story so pregnant with sensation that city editors lick their chops and fervently mutter, "Oh, boy! That's made to order!" The trial of a "lovely society heiress" for the murder of a "noted architect," with a "beautiful nightclub dancer" as star witness for the prosecution would be just such a story. Last week Hearst's New York American was full of it. But the story was literally made to order-an ingenious new circulation stunt...