Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ceremonial to the Lyceum Club last week, Sir Gerald digressed to wipe Windsor with the charge that King Edward VIII unduly speeded up the funeral of his father King George V. Nowadays the drawing rooms of Mayfair buzz with tidbits of how Edward is supposed to have been a trial to his mother, and Sir Gerald was only serving up the sort of dish scores of swank Britons pass around their teatables. "Indeed it is a fact," sniffed the Garter King of Arms, with stinging implication, "that less time was allowed for funeral arrangements to be made [for George...
...case went to trial last week in Birmingham. The Post claimed its story was substantially true, introduced evidence to show that White had told the same story to other people. The jury, out 15 minutes, found for the Post. White announced he would file a second appeal...
Many a newshawk who covered the "monkey trial" of John Thomas Scopes at Dayton, Tenn. in 1925 feels that the sudden death of William Jennings Bryan in that little town was in large part due to the forensic drubbing he received from the satanic tongue of Clarence Darrow. At one point the grim old lawyer said: "The Bible says every living thing that was not taken on the Ark with Noah was drowned in the flood. Do you believe that Mr. Bryan...
...effect of the Scopes trial was to instill a burning determination to combat ignorance and bigotry in a wispy, grey, mild-mannered man named Ludwig Erwin Katterfeld. Born 56 years ago in Strasbourg, which was then German, Ludwig Katterfeld arrived in the U. S., worked on a Nebraska farm, graduated from a college in Kansas where he majored in sociology. He got interested in labor problems, joined the Socialist party, rose to a position of some influence, acted as a circulation executive for several left-wing publications. Meanwhile he made a living as a salesman. Now his crusade for scientific...
...ruffian mutineers. At St. Helena, Mate Thompson, with the gallows in his mind, planned to destroy evidence by linking the slaves' fetters to the anchor chain and dropping anchor. In a free-for-all, Skipper Lovett freed most of the blackbirds, shot Thompson in the belly. Put on trial for slaving, Lovett admitted his guilt. Nancy's testimony, in the picture's best dramatic scene, saves his life...