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Word: trial (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your TIMEly report of the disconcerting outcome of the notorious Tampa flogging trial (TIME, Oct. 25), will give progressive Tampans, who believe in civil liberties and who wish to believe in the integrity of Florida justice, cause for mingled shame and gratitude. Such searching scrutiny of the facts must eventuate in some progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...trial at Lyon was a suit in which one of the aristocratic original founders of the Croix de Feu, Duke Joseph Pozzo di Borgo, called M. Tardieu to bear witness that the Duke had spoken truly in making public accusations against Colonel de La Rocque which the colonel described in a speech as "maliciously false." The Duke took this charge as occasion to sue for slander, and the Lyon court was expected to give judgment next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dead Men | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...Reisenberg's East Side, West Side, leading best-seller of its kind, a number of levels below John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer. Clearly marked for commercial success, this Rice pudding is seasoned with everything that ever came out of Author Rice's cupboard: courtroom atmosphere (On Trial, Counsellor-at-Law), social indignation (We, the People), personal pique (letters to the New York Times), alternately satirical and glamorous treatment of artists, writers and the theatre (The Left Bank), human interest, melodramatic enthusiasm for New York generally. In fact, about the only ingredient the book lacks is good novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rice Pudding | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...from the biologist any essential information: both calves are normal in their sex characteristics. . . . There of course is no question about the bull's future as the butcher will get him shortly, but I hesitate to cut short the life of a potential milk producer without a fair trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...Warren Billings for the 1916 Preparedness Day Bombings; of pneumonia; in San Francisco. After his successful prosecution of Mooney and Billings, Attorney Fickert twice ran unsuccessfully for re-election as District Attorney, once ran unsuccessfully for Governor of California. He always swore that Mooney and Billings got a fair trial, though for the rest of his life he was the object of threats and imprecations. When Convict Mooney heard of Attorney Fickert's death he said bitterly: "He'll be chiefly known for that infamous conduct rather than for anything else he ever did, if he ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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