Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courtroom shivered. Witness Boston's jaw dropped. So did Prosecutor Dewey's. He and Attorney Stryker strode to the bench where sat stern-faced Justice Ferdinand Pecora. Attorney Stryker argued that the prosecutor's remark had nothing to do with the trial at hand, was deliberately prejudicial to his client. Prosecutor Dewey insisted that the question was proper and justified. Justice Pecora, with face sterner than ever, recessed court for the week-end to decide...
Thereupon the spotlight of the trial shifted from Thomas Dewey and James Hines to Ferdinand Pecora. As the reform candidate whom Tammanyite Hines helped Tammanyite Dodge beat at the polls in 1933, as a Democratic judge presiding over a case that might make Republican Dewey Governor of New York, Justice Pecora was put to hard test of judicial impartiality...
...trial which had filled the press of New York City and the nation with surprises for a month, this was a fittingly strange ending. For grinning Jimmy Hines and alert Attorney Stryker, it was a masterstroke. In a new trial before another jury the hand of the prosecutor will be lying face-up and the opportunities for cross-examination by Attorney Stryker vastly enhanced. For the "Great Prosecutor" whom Republicans had already slated for the gubernatorial nomination at their State convention this month, it was the humiliation of being caught in an ABC legal error...
...enroll some 7,200 employes of big, 494-branched Bank of America in its white-collar United Office & Professional Workers union. One Edward C. Washer, in a Los Angeles branch of the bank, was an active organizer last year. He was fired in November. Last week NLRB's Trial Examiner R. N. Denham ordered Employe Washer reinstated with back pay, ordered Bank of America-which it pronounced engaged in interstate commerce -to stop blocking C. I. O., or any other union...
...families who have given the museum gifts and endowments worth $400,000 let it be known that these would lapse if the museum's administration were changed. Remarked the Museum Board's portly president, Architect Louis La Beaume: "There has been nothing like this since the monkey trial at Dayton, Tenn...