Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble was that Homer Martin could not get along with four of his five vice presidents, therefore suspended them (TIME, June 20). Last week he hailed them before his executive board in Detroit. The defendants understood that the final hearing was to be more of an execution than a trial, therefore stayed away and swapped charges with Homer Martin in the newspapers...
Last week, Barbara Carroll went to the South Paris courthouse to see her father, on trial for the murder of Dr. Littlefield...
...lost virginity; Dwyer taxed Carroll with it and the father threatened, bullied, finally accused him of making Barbara pregnant; when Dr. Littlefield, called in to examine the girl, learned of the incest, Carroll strangled the doctor, forced Dwyer to drive away with the body; during Dwyer's trial, Carroll had scared him into silence...
Amid a blizzard of protesting telegrams from anti-Earle Pennsylvanians, through House and Senate last week were quickly steamrollered four Earle bills: 1) reserving to the House prior right to investigate State officers for impeachable offenses; 2) enabling the Attorney General to supersede any local prosecutor in any such trial in the courts; 3) suspending the Dauphin County Grand Jury's investigation; 4) creating a House committee to investigate Mr. Earle & friends, with power to jail reluctant witnesses...
...prosecutor of the famed Monkey Trial of evolution-teaching John T. Scopes (TIME...