Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ostensibly the proceedings were a trial for High Treason. Three young German army officers (Lieutenants Richard Scheringer, Hans Ludin, Friedrich Wendt) were charged with inciting their men to join a Fascist putsch should it be proclaimed. Without quite admitting their guilt the young officers waxed hotly truculent. "I would obey an order to shoot down Communists," shouted Lieutenant Scheringer, "but I would disobey a command to fire on men of my own persuasion...
...wreath. Pistol Man de Rosa wiggled his way through surrounding guards, fired two ineffectual shots, was immediately knocked senseless. Almost as though he had expected the shots, Prince Umberto coolly proceeded with his wreath laying. The affair looked strange to reporters when it occurred. Last week as the trial progressed, it looked stranger still...
Droning on in totally irrelevant vein the trial seemed headed for acquittal of fat Fernando. But newsprophecies to this effect were unfair to Belgian justice. Fat Fernando was abruptly found guilty, sentenced to five years in jail...
...candidates devote a great deal of their time getting advertisements, under an assignment, system. With a certain amount of routine material, the candidates receive a vast amount of interesting and practical experience. This fall competition is the best time for Sophomores to try for this department, since the next trial, the last opportunity, lasts through the midyear examination period...
That's The Woman is the latest offering of Playwright Bayard Veiller (The Trial of Mary Dugan, The 13th Chair). In the first scene spectators are apprised that a young socialite (Gavin Muir) will indubitably go to the electric chair for the murder of his best friend unless he is willing to divulge his move ments on the night of the killing. At the last moment Mercer Trask (A. E. Anson), a barrister of the Clarence Darrow variety, is importuned to cheat the gallows, free Mr. Muir. Lawyer Trask has not been on the case half an hour before...