Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your Feb. 21 issue you refer to Georgi Dimitroff's methods in his Reichstag-fire trial as "indomitable, singlehanded, fighting methods" which caused the German Supreme Court to acquit "the famed Bulgarian Communist." In fact-gathering FORTUNE'S article on British Foreign Policy last March he was "a half-witted Communist stooge." Maybe I am quibbling . . . but would TIME Inc. mind settling its family difference on this point and reveal his status...
Reader Moore should pay attention. The "half-witted stooge" of the Reichstag trial was Marinus van der Lubbe, who shortly after the trial ended was beheaded...
...last November (TIME, Jan. 3), has since sold 20,000 copies. Author of The Folklore of Capitalism is an irreverent, eloquent 46-year-old Yale law professor named Thurman Wesley Arnold whose previous career included a term in the Wyoming Legislature, legal work for the New Deal as a trial examiner for the SEC, consultant to Department of Justice's Trustbusting Robert Houghwout Jackson...
...papers had at first been forbidden to report the farmers' activities in Berlin or even their arrival. The State's act of clemency and the story of the farmers were then released together last week, timed to blanket in the German press the ending of the Niemoller trial (TIME, Feb. 21). Heroic Rev. Martin Niemöller, a Wartime U-boat commander who helped sink record Allied tonnage, was arraigned four weeks ago on charges which included sedition. During the trial, from which press and public were excluded, the State's case apparently so far collapsed that...
...court last week sentenced Niemöller not to imprisonment in jail but to "honorable detention in a fortress"* for seven months. Showing definite leniency, the court, which might have given Niemöller two years, decreed he had already served more than the sentence imposed while awaiting trial, need only pay a $600 fine to go free last week, so far as the court was concerned...