Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...safety. Arrested were eleven patrons on the charge of liquor possession (a misdemeanor under the Volstead Act), 16 employes charged with providing "set-ups." Through a hooting, jeering Broadway crowd, the 27 men were taken to the police station, later held in $500 or more bail each for trial...
Last week Governor Kohler went on trial at Sheboygan, after carrying his case in vain to the State Supreme Court on technicalities of jurisdiction (TIME, Feb. 17). The courtroom scene generated political impulses that fanned over the whole State. The trial marked the commencement of the 1930 campaign. If Brother Phil could put Governor Kohler out of office by this trial, it was agreed that a LaFollette would again be Governor of Wisconsin...
...opening of the outdoor track and field season in Boston will be held on Friday at the Stadium, when the trial events of the Greater Boston Intercollegiate Track Meet will be run off. The meet is the first of its kind ever held in Cambridge...
...violent campaign of St. Gandhi for Indian independence is stirring (TIME, Jan. 6). At Karachi, busy modern seaport on the Arabian Sea, a mob of 10,000, yelling, waving flags, throwing stones, swept down on the courthouse where six non-violent followers of Mahatma Gandhi were on trial for violating the British salt laws. British police rifles fired volleys point-blank into the crowd before the yelling, rushing wave of rioters dispersed. One native was killed, 33 were wounded, in- cluding two British police sergeants...
...Morison was a young man (he is now 45), much interested in the historical figure of Jesus, he was not satisfied with "its overgrowth of primitive beliefs and dogmatic suppositions, planned to write a book giving the true history as well as he could reconstruct it, of Jesus' trial, crucifixion, death. When he came to write the book, his investigations and deductions led him to a different interpretation from the one he had in mind. His problem finally resolved itself into the title of his book: who moved the stone from Jesus' tomb? Author Morison's book...