Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immediate University action is contemplated in regard to the membership of Richard Whitney '10 on the Overseers' Visiting Committee on Economics, it was authoritatively learned yesterday. If the University should decide after Whitney's trial to ask his resignation, it will be the first time that a member of a Visiting Committee has been expelled...
Last week, the Campbell-McGee parade reached its logical destination. After a trial, in the course of which the judge announced that he had foiled a plot whereby a woman juror was to receive a $25,000 bribe for holding out for acquittal, a jury, sequestered in the Statler Hotel, found Messrs. Campbell & McGee guilty as charged. Same day, accompanied by policemen but not by their musicians, Messrs. Campbell & McGee motored to Ohio Penitentiary, to start serving one-to-five-year sentences...
Orator Hitler came out on a balcony, could not make himself heard, retired, emerged and again could not outroar his welcome. At the third trial the Modern Caesar was heard to cry: "German compatriots! Seventy-five million people in one nation [huzzahs, shrieks] are stirred to the depths of feeling which you are now demonstrating! [pandemonium]. You will all fulfill your oath! (Ja! Ja! Heil! Sieg Heil!) You will ALL fulfill your oath-all of you, from Königsberg to Hamburg and down to Vienna! You do so in deepest emotion. German compatriots- NO FORCE ON EARTH CAN SHAKE...
Soviet Borgias. The Soviet Political Police have long been suspected of using poison in dealing with political opponents of Stalin, particularly in Asia, and revelations at the trial last week disclosed that the OGPU had a poison laboratory. It was at the disposal of former OGPU Chief Yagoda, sentenced to death, presumably is at the disposal of his successor, OGPU Chief Yezhov...
...year-old Bobby Franks-life imprisonment rather than gallows on lunacy plea; 5) John Scopes, violation (1925) of Tennessee's anti-evolution statute-fined $100, after Darrow had quizzed William Jennings Bryan on the Bible's veracity (Bryan died at the conclusion of the trial); 6) Lieut. Thomas H. Massie, honor-murderer (1932) in Honolulu of Joseph Kahahawai Jr.-found guilty of manslaughter...