Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Valuable psychologically, is another type of court martial in which a minor offender whose guilt is unquestionable, or one whose arrest brings important foreign repercussions, is brought to trial in a full blaze of publicity complete with defense attorneys and sheafs of copy paper in the press box, to show that justice and mercy still exist on whichever side is holding the trial...
...aviator known to have been caught alive, because his blonde wife, Edith, crooner on the French Riviera, had sent a photograph of herself to El Caudillo so toothsome that staff officers had passed it about for several days before presenting it to their very much married Generalissimo, the trial attracted every foreign correspondent in Salamanca...
...defense centred on the fact that Flyer Dahl believed that he was to be merely an instructor, not an actual fighter, that of the prosecution that though he had gone once to France since joining the Leftists, he returned voluntarily to rejoin their army. For two days the trial continued, then came the verdict: death. Scarcely was it delivered than the Attorney-Marques tipped his client a prodigious wink. A reprieve, already signed and sealed, was on its way over from General Franco's headquarters in the Bishop of Salamanca's palace...
Gardner said that the visible strengthening of the Chinese government during recent years has almost daily reduced Japan's chances of success in any trial of arms. Chinese resistance at Shanghal in 1932 was already an ill omen for Japanese aspiration of the continent. The repection of 1936 of Japanese demands for an advisory and supervisory position in relation to the Chinese army and government showed that China was aware of its growing power...
...convinced that such trifling is morally unjustifiable. As to Sir Arthur's scores, they form an easy introduction to dramatic music and picturesque or topical orchestration for perfect novices; but as I had learned it all from Meyerbeer . . . and was pretty well tired of Offenbach before Trial By Jury was born, there was no musical novelty in the affair...