Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago last week, on trial for his life, Lumberjack Seadlund gave a fascinated jury the details of the whole extraordinary story. He and Gray had taken Ross first to a wooden dugout near Emily, Wis., where they kept their aged victim manacled for 13 chill autumn days, then to Spooner. By this time, the jurors gathered from the defendant's story, the affair had taken on the atmosphere of a camping trip in which his principal concern had been the comfort and convenience of the captive. Trouble between Seadlund and his less considerate accomplice apparently developed on this score...
...soundproof police cellars had just been executed last week the 18 Old Bolsheviks condemned at Moscow's latest blood-purge trial (TIME, March 21. et ante) and one of the dead was Nikolai Krestinsky, up to a few months ago First Vice-Commissar of Foreign Affairs. In the past twelve months Commissar Litvinoff has also suffered the execution or disappearance of nearly all the great figures of Soviet diplomacy, including the Soviet Union's chief expert on Near & Far East affairs, Leo Karakhan, and several Soviet diplomats have fled abroad to denounce Communism & Stalin. Moscow papers had just...
Taking the consistently serious stand that women take jury service more to heart than men, Miss Esther Gordon introduced the affirmative arguments. "But jury duty is such a trial," answered the first Crimson speaker, Robert W. Bean '39, and he didn't see why women wanted jury duty...
...demand for a thorough Congressional investigation that brought the President face to face with the rather doubtful condition of the T.V.A. Not relishing any embarrassing revelation so close to the congressional elections the President's countermove was a hasty summons of ]the three directors to a White House "trial...
Walter Lippmann '10, chairman of the Economics' Visiting Committee, declared yesterday that he had no statement to make concerning Whitney's status, at least until the conclusion of the trial...