Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...churchyards have been profaned. . . . The people have played football with the skull of the great Bishop Torras y Bages. . . . We calculate that about 20,000 churches and chapels have been destroyed or totally plundered. . . . [Priests] were hunted with dogs; were pursued across the mountains. . . . They were killed without trial most times. . . . The honor of women has not been respected, not even of those consecrated...
...brought in December 1934 by the Lazard family and certain other Anglo stockholders against Banker Herbert personally and the bank, charging in substance that he had used his position as Anglo president to wangle profits on the side for himself. This was the suit which last fortnight came to trial on the third floor of San Francisco's post-office building in the marble and plaster-cupid encrusted courtroom of Federal Judge Adolphus Frederick St. Sure...
Much of the evidence for these charges hinged upon an alleged statement by J. N. Barde admitting part of them. But that non-Californian resident refused to attend the trial, and the defense produced a statement by him that the Fleishhacker deal was in entire good faith. Balance of the defense, presided over by famed & fast-thinking Lawyer John Francis Neylan, longtime Hearst adviser, was based principally on the claim that Herbert Fleishhacker never imposed a repayment condition upon any of the loans made to the Bardes, that he had never received any secret emoluments under the guise of salary...
...Porter Allen, modernized both Childs restaurants and Childs food. White tiles yielded to Puritan, even to Moorish decorations with dance orchestras and goldfish ponds. Meat returned to the menu and instead of vegetarian dogma Childs sponsored a noisy campaign to "Eat all you can for 60?." After an unsuccessful trial this also was dropped like a hot pancake. Really successful, however, was tie next major change, a change which has put dollars into the pockets of many a restaurant man from coast to coast-installation of bars...
...Mexican state of Sonora. Short of men and food, still shorter on experience, the expedition lasted through seven months of skirmishes, mutinies, desertions, marauding and general futility. Relieved to get out alive, Walker limped across the U. S. border with 34 survivors, surrendered to U. S. authorities. On trial in San Francisco for violation of the neutrality laws, Walker lied that he had intended no harm, won a prompt acquittal from a jury reflecting the public's readiness to wink at his kind...