Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When 30 high officers and 16 major oil firms were convicted in Madison, Wis. last January of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Federal Judge Patrick Thomas Stone withheld sentence pending motions for a new trial. Last week, he listened to an argument that the jury's verdict should be set aside because the jurors deliberated the complex case only seven hours, which was not enough time to give each defendant the individual consideration specifically ordered by Judge Stone. Meanwhile, in Washington, a Senate committee, studying a bill to require separation of marketing petroleum from producing, refining and transporting...
Last week counsel for the defunct magazine, with the fear of the Lord Chief Justice in their hearts, decided not to risk a trial. The suit was publicly settled out of court. Author, proprietor, publisher and printer agreed to pay Shirley Temple $10,000, to hand over an additional $7,500 to Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., producers of Wee Willie Winkie. It was announced that the $17,500, when collected, would go to charity...
During their trial runs Saturday the Yale third Varsity crew consistently heat the seconds in every sprint...
...vastly more effective than any other naval weapon of this calibre. Since the Soviet Union is now concentrating on building up the first real Russian navy (TIME, Feb. 28) and is in the market for naval improvements of all sorts, sea-minded Britons have followed the Miss X trial with breathless interest...
...BEFORE I WAKE-Sherwood King - Simon & Schuster ($2). The chauffeur of a rich Long Island lawyer, involved in a murder conspiracy, finds himself on trial for the murder of a man he did not kill. Plot: clever; style: swift, spare...