Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gave the "Quality of Mercy" in an attitude which suggested that she was trying to count the seats in the extreme rear of the balcony. Although the role of the Merchant was dwarfed more than usual, John Burke made the best of the opportunities offered him, particularly in the trial. The Casket scene was as effective...
...Year's Day Mexico adopted a new criminal code abolishing the death penalty for murder, abolishing trial by jury in criminal cases. Before Mexico's First Penal Court last week came Murderers Dionoso ("Diablo") Corono and Pascasio Gonzales, charged with slaying one Jose Valdes, his wife and his daughter. Horrified and excited by testimony that the murders had been committed with extreme and unprintable ferocity, the judges lost their heads, forgot that the new law curtails their powers, and pronounced sentence of death "on these two Devils...
...March 10-Trial of Edward Laurence Doheny for bribery in connection with the Elk Hills Oil lease; at Washington...
Married. John Thomas Scopes, 29, Venezuela Gulf Oil Co. geologist, famed culprit in the Dayton, Tenn., evolution trial (TIME, May 18, 1925 et seq.); and Mildred Walker, fellow employe; at Maracaibo, Venezuela...
...March 10?Trial of Edward Laurence Doheny; at Washington, D. C., on a bribery charge in connection with the Elk Hills oil lease...