Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trial did not take long. The defendants, as is Communist custom, loudly pleaded guilty. Judge Ulrich gave out the verdict: "The court has established that the defendants were employed by the military secret service of a foreign government conducting an unfriendly policy against the Soviet Union. They . . . permitted wrecking acts intended to undermine the power of the Red Army and to prepare for . . . the defeat of the Red Army in event of an attack against it. ... The special court session found all eight guilty of violating their military oath, of treason to the Red Army and of treason...
...police, but still not doubt her kindness. If the old lady, in police court, explained that she was a great friend of animals, a contributor to humane societies, habitually solicitous of waifs and strays, she might be considered an unfortunate victim of coincidence, sure to be cleared at her trial...
Such was the position of wealthy Mrs. Juliet Tuttle, 65, after the deaths of three popular dogs of suburban Eastchester, N. Y. last month (TIME. May 31). But at her trial last week, other evidence darkened the picture. Found near the spot where she had approached the dogs was a capsule which had contained cyanide of potassium. A former chauffeur of hers testified he had resigned "in disgust" because she used to have him stop the car while she got out to give capsules to stray cats. When the cats keeled over she would deliver them...
With another bathing-suit season at hand, local lawmakers are aiming their ordinances at males on the score of topless suits* rather than at underclad females. A five-year-old male bathing lawsuit came to trial last week in Chicago but an alleged lower exposure, not an upper, had started it. And though the fight was between two-lawyers, the only persons hurt were three policemen...
...Vagabond gasped and nearly swallowed his toothbrush. He was on the trial of something big. Why do they give us money? To help the University as an institution or to help the students? Both I guess, but I'll bet there are a lot of men who would rather help the students directly than create national scholarships or roving professorships, but they can't give any money because they don't know what the University needs from the Undergraduate point of view...