Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first is that Mr. Roosevelt, however humanitarian his ideals, has proved that he lacks the ability to translate his ideas into sound legislation. When Mr. Landon observed that the President has delayed social progress by insisting on the passage of readymade laws which, after trial, prove to be of inferior workmanship, his statement was accurate and supported by cogent illustrations from recent history. The NRA was the most distressing example of Mr. Roosevelt's leap-before-you-look policy, and accounted for two years of confusion and wasted time in the national economy. The Wagner Act and the Social Security...
Benefiting from the same reprieve were three glum, middle-aged Russian aviators who had been shot down at almost the same time, were on trial simultaneously: Alexis Teodoro Chircasov, Michael Zaikin, Gregori Nicolas Jhosiainov...
...State capitol and State university. Last week, though no petroleum has ever been found there, Madison became also the temporary capital of the U. S. oil industry. In the biggest trust-busting case since the famed dissolution of Standard Oil, the Federal Government last week brought to trial in Madison 18 major U. S. oil companies, five of their subsidiaries, three oil trade journals and 57 ranking oilmen.* Under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act all stood criminally indicted for having "combined and conspired, beginning in February 1935 ... to raise and fix prices of gasoline sold in ... ten States...
...Deal and NRA. Best summary yet of the situation from the oilman's point of view was the remark of one executive: "The oil industry feels like a small boy spanked by mamma for doing something papa told him to do. ..." Last week, when trial finally got under way on the second floor of Madison's eight-year-old Federal building, it was obvious that this would be the major line of defense...
...scrupulous fairness. That he would tolerate no undue fuss and delay became apparent when he succeeded in getting a jury chosen on the first day, instead of allowing the week that had been estimated would be necessary. His sternness was also apparent in the first skirmish of the trial, when Prosecutor Hammond Edward Chaffetz, 30, who has been with the Department of Justice since graduation from Harvard Law School seven years ago, tried to forestall the obvious plan of the defense to shoulder all blame on the New Deal. Prosecutor Chaffetz asked Judge Stone to forbid the defense to assert...