Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor of New York rather than have Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt throw him out of it. On trial for his political life, pestered with questions about where he got his money, jaunty Jimmy exiled himself in Europe after thumbing his nose at Mr. Roosevelt and storming: "He has been studiously unfair. . . . He has acted as a prosecutor. . . . Shall I permit myself to be lynched to satisfy prejudice or personal ambition?" Last week Franklin D. Roosevelt and Jimmy Walker faced each other again. Mr. & Mrs. Walker paid a call at the White House (see cut). Ostensibly Jimmy went as lawyer-lobbyist...
Cited last fortnight for unfair labor practices, Republic was on trial last week in Washington before the National Labor Relations Board. Among the charges was that "the company at all six plants has interfered with the right of its employes peacefully to picket and still does intimidate its employes by shooting at them and by throwing bolts and other dangerous missiles at them...
...McKee off the ballot. O'Brien was elected but 125,000 angry citizens wrote in McKee's name on the ballot. Next year at the regular election, Tammany backed O'Brien again. Jim Farley, with whom Tammany had been on the outs since Walker's trial, arranged a Recovery ticket headed by McKee. Outraged citizens of all parties united to form a Fusion ticket headed by Fiorello LaGuardia. In the election LaGuardia ran first, O'Brien last. Even Tammany saw that Boss Curry had blundered. He was deposed...
...Irishman aged only 28, the 4th Marquess of Dufferin & Ava, had charge of His Majesty's Government's bill in the House of Lords as Undersecretary for Colonies, was on trial last week as a coming Conservative statesman of possibly bright future...
More like the great Clarence Darrow, unlike such fabulous criminal defenders as the late William Fallen whose jury victories were often n to i disagreements, and who was acquitted of giving a bribe to a juror although the juror, in a separate trial, had been convicted of receiving the bribe from Fallen, Lawyer Liebowitz has won his jury verdicts outright. The records disclose only one accusation of tampering with justice. In 1932 a county judge in Brooklyn dismissed an indictment based on unsupported testimony of a confessed prostitute that Liebowitz had coached her what to testify against the police stool...