Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...range of colorful uniforms; recruits were given the opportunity of choosing a regiment by its regalia. Special blue "walking-out" uniforms were provided. Out-of-workers were warmly invited to spend a free holiday with the Army. Prospective Tommies were escorted through spick & span, comfortably-furnished barracks. A trial enlistment scheme whereby young men could join up for six months was inaugurated. Such chores as scrubbing and peeling potatoes were eliminated from regular military duties. Finally, haircuts and new equipment, formerly paid for by each soldier, were thrown in free...
Fortnight ago many Germans hoped that the postponement of the trial of Rev. Dr. Martin Niemöller, defiant Anti-Nazi Protestant pastor (TIME, Aug. 16), forecast the gradual abandonment of the Reich's campaign against all religious groups that run afoul the Nazi ideology...
...convicted of assaulting a girl of 9 in the basement of an apartment building. The girl recovered from 37 stabs from a rusty ice pick, a file and a pair of shears, was the State's principal witness. In Los Angeles, a 32-year-old watchman was on trial for raping and murdering three little girls aged...
Died. Edmund Lester Pearson, 57, literary criminologist (The Trial of Lizzie Borden, Murder at Smutty Nose, Studies in Murder); of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan...
...often politics not Law decides whether a Governor extradites a man wanted for trial in another State. Last week Law asserted its rights in two distant States. In California, Attorney General Ulysses Sigel Webb ruled Governor Frank F. Merriam had no option, must surrender La Verne Moore, fabled super-golfing mystery man known for seven years as John Montague, to New York State to stand trial for alleged participation in a roadhouse robbery in 1930. This despite appeals for Montague by Bing Crosby, Guy Kibbee, George Von Elm, et al. Promptly John Montague's attorneys flew their appeals East...