Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Witness MacDonald, wandering waiter, had been found in Baltimore and sent to California by the Mooney-Billings defense to admit his perjury after the Supreme Court refused last month to recommend a pardon for Billings (TIME, July 21). In 1916 he told trial juries that he had seen Billings and Mooney with a suitcase, presumably containing the bomb, at the street corner where occurred the explosion that killed ten persons. Last week before the Supreme Justices he swore that he had seen neither of them there, that, in fact, he was not sure if he had really witnessed the bombing...
...important accolade. To Winston F. C. Guest, hard-riding No. 2, next to Thomas Hitchcock Jr. the longest hitter in the game, fell the demotion-reduction of his handicap from nine goals to eight. Always erratic, Guest has been expected to have poor afternoons, but this year in trial matches among contestants for the International team his poor afternoons have come oftener than before, his streaks of brilliant scoring more seldom. Critics who had considered him sure of a place on the team wondered what would happen if he fails to improve in the next few weeks...
...Malmesbury, England, Captain Charles Tremayne announced for the last trial against the Army a line-up that will probably though not positively be the one that faces the U. S. in September: No. 1, Capt. Richard George; No. 2, Gerald Balding; No. 3, Capt. C. T. I. ("Pat") Roark; Back, Lewis Lacey...
...England the British Home Office issued orders that if Earl Carroll, Broadway producer on trial last week for obscenities in his Vanities, should leave the U. S. for Great Britain, he must not be permitted to land. "Ridiculous!" snorted Brother Norman Carroll at rumors that Producer Carroll might flee the law and the land...
...changed the atmosphere from one of co-operation to one of hostility. . . . The search [for Lingle's murderer] is confused and obstructed by publishers who should be interested in making the pursuit relentless wherever it leads. . . . The decency and honesty of newspaper work in this city is on public trial...