Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adopted a resolution to extend time for the assessment, refund and credit of 1927 and 1928 income taxes levied on married couples having joint incomes. ¶ Passed law-enforcement bills: 1) providing for waiver of trial by jury in the U. S. District Courts, 2) defining petty offenses and their penalties, 3) defining "casual or slight violations" of the Jones ("Five & Ten") Act, 4) providing for summary prosecution of such violations...
...less glasses. He was Bishop James Cannon Jr., Chairman of the Board of Temperance & Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, a man of political prominence whose spiritual loins were somewhat ungirded last month when his church's convention required him to ex press contrition or stand trial for ''bucket shop" gambling (TIME, May 19). He seemed nice lion-bait, so the room was packed with spectators, including Representative George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts, who accused the Methodist Board of lobbying, and Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of the Speaker of the House, who regarded...
...This was the famous case in which the prosecuting attorney and the judge united to condemn the dishonest and provocative methods by which the Watch and Ward Society procured its evidence. The highest court of the state had just affirmed, as a matter of law, the verdict; but the trial judge will find Cambridge opinion, as well as that of other cities and states, with him in his final action...
...jury, all "petty" offenders. The Commissioner would hand up his findings of fact and his recommendation for a verdict to the U. S. District Judge who would decide the case and sentence the defendant. Within five days after his conviction, a defendant may demand that he have a trial by jury...
...June 13?Trial race of U. S. America's Cup defenders; at Glen Cove. L. I. Probable starters: Enterprise, Resolute, Vanitie, Weetamoe, Whirlwind, Yankee...