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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than it spent last year. He also hinted that a "committee of 15 industrialists" might be formed to match the prestige of the Wet du Ponts and John Jacob Raskob. He published a list of 25 businessmen "determined that the Dry cause shall have the fair trial which it merits." Most notable name on this list: H. W. Hoover (no kin), vacuum cleaner man of North Canton, Ohio. Other names: Senator Arthur Capper, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, Admiral William S. Sims, Horace Taft...
...Fruit Industries' official said: "After hiring Mrs. Willebrandt. [the company] picked out New Haven for trial of sales experiment. This was turned down by Washington. They then picked Cleveland. This was also turned down by Washington, and they were told to put on the opening campaign in Milwaukee." Upon this statement also Director Woodcock declined last week to comment...
Propaganda trials in Russia correspond to U. S. Presidential statements, serve to emphasize the Administration's notions. Last big affair of this sort was the Schachkta Trial (TIME, July 2 & 16, 1928), broadcast by radio to prove that lazy, clumsy or willfully inefficient engineers or workmen could expect harsh treatment. Hero of these proceedings was Soviet Prosecutor Nikolai Vassilievitch Krylenko. Last week in a 30-column statement which Moscow papers dutifully printed, Comrade Krylenko announced that he would put eight arrested persons on trial for conspiring with non-Bolshevik citizens to seize the State and to make...
Several of the accused, as in the Schachkta case, appeared to have confessed with extreme volubility, will rehearse these confessions at the trial with a view to incriminating as their foreign accomplices: i) Raymond Poincare, Wartime President of France; 2) Colonel Thomas Edward (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence; 3) Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France; 4) Winston Churchill, former Chancellor of the British Exchequer; 5) Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, Royal Dutch oilman...
...Trial by Jury," Professor Yeomans, Harvard...