Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passing of an altered $10.000 Treasury note which had been part of $2,000,000 stolen from United States Trust Co. of New York and Bank of Manhattan Co. in 1935-36. After tilting several times with celebrated Defense Attorney Samuel Leibowitz during the four days of the trial, Justice Van Devanter settled down to make his charge to the jury...
Exhibiting the $10,000 note, the Justice chuckled: "After a life of some years, I never saw one until this trial. There don't many men handle them. They're not like pennies and nickels...
Last week to Negro Claybrook's other distinctions was added that of being selected in Marion, Ark. to serve on a jury with eleven white men in the trial of two Negro youths for raping a white girl. He was the first Negro so honored in Marion since 1888, one of the few in the whole history of Southern jurisprudence. The trial-attended by 800 spectators who were searched for weapons at the courthouse door-lasted one day. When it ended, it took Juror Claybrook and his confreres only seven minutes to find the defendants guilty...
...Hamburg last week the Nazi judge of non-Aryan Shipowner Arnold Bernstein (TIME, Nov. 29, et ante) made sure that the Fatherland will secure possession of the Red Star and Arnold Bernstein Lines (Garage Ships). At the end of a complex trial the court fined him $400,000, sentenced him to two and a half years in jail...
Mayor Wilson's suit has yet to come to trial. Meanwhile, Mayor Wilson got the city council to notify U. G. I. that it would get no new lease on Jan. 1, 1938. When U. G. I. went to work conciliating individual city councilors with hearty lunches of fried oysters and chicken salad, the mayor shouted over the radio that U. G. I. was "pumping air into the gas supply...