Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shipyards of the Port of New York, involving some 15,000 workers. After a shutdown the shipyards began to reopen, bringing almost daily picket line clashes between strikers, workers and police. Cited by the National Labor Relations Board, big Todd Shipyards Corp. had been hailed before a trial examiner, who cried in exasperation last week that the hearings had broken "all records" for perjury. Picketing injunctions had been flagrantly violated. Though severely stoned on several occasions, the New York City police have given a demonstration of strike work which might well be studied by Chicago. One day last week...
...last week: "I object." Lawyer Colombo objected to the way the Labor Board counsel was riding a Ford foreman who testified that he fired a man, not for union activity as charged, but for "gazing off into space." But Lawyer Colombo's objection was overruled by Trial Examiner John T. Lindsay. Lawyer Colombo started to say: "I am going to object every time . . ." when Examiner Lindsay cut him short: "Go ahead and object. Your objection is overruled...
...before he wound up the turbulent Ford hearings, preparatory to submitting his report to the three-man Labor Board in Washington, Examiner Lindsay gave a little dissertation on the theory of Labor Board hearings, a type of procedure which has baffled many another lawyer beside Mr. Colombo. Said the trial examiner...
Featured in a recent movie was a trick of Liebowitz's in the Romano murder trial. All Romano had was an alibi that he had been working in a fishmarket at the time the murder happened. The prosecutor brought in a basket of fish, held them up one by one. Romano named all wrong. The prosecution grinned, rested. Liebowitz jumped up, appealed to the Jews on the jury. Romano had been working in a kosher fish market. "Why they're trying to convict him on Christian fish!" he thundered. The jury acquitted...
...Federal District Court restraining the Govern-ment from anti-trust proceedings in Manhattan against Aluminum Co. of America (TIME, May 24 et ante): A Decision by a three-judge "special expediting" panel of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia overruling Judge Gibson, opening the way for trial of Andrew W. Mellon and 42 other Alcoans...