Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine-inch catfish. The inference is that tarpon fishing at Port Aransas is excellent, while at Port Isabel it is worthless. The facts are that tarpon fishing is good at both places; and the facts further are that the President did not give tarpon fishing at Port Isabel a trial...
...conference next morning, the President put on a vigorous act, a stern lecture on the need for judiciary reform. He was severe with the Supreme Court. It had left important New Deal cases undecided. It had refused to prevent the suit of 19 utilities against TVA from going to trial in the lower courts. It had granted appeals on two suits against PWA power loans to municipalities, thereby keeping $50,000,000 of such loans tied up. It had refused the Government's request to allow Electric Bond & Share's challenge of the Public Utility Holding Company...
Before they heard this bad news, the Senate had been thrown into a turmoil when four days earlier the lower house passed the most sweeping amnesty bill in Cuba's history. Under its provisions thousands of prisoners awaiting trial for political offenses and common crimes ranging from pocket-picking to murder, committed before May 20, would be turned out of Cuba's crowded jails. In addition, hundreds of political exiles would be free to return, even onetime (1925-33) President Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado, now in Montreal where his secretary announced he would be likely to stay...
...trial's end Judge Hubbard directed a verdict for the defendants. His ruling was a warning to other Kentucky public educators: "As a teacher in a municipal university supported by public taxes, Dr. Freeman has no privacy to be molested. . . . These gentlemen of the American Legion did nothing that any citizen doesn't have the right to do; they inquired into the character and record of a teacher and the things he taught our young people. They are to be commended...
...verdict of the Senate in 1868, sitting as a Court of Impeachment [on unpopular President Andrew Johnson], put a quietus on another heresy that had broken out periodically since 1787. It was now determined, for all time, that impeachment was a trial, not to settle a political argument, but to establish crime." Had Johnson's impeachment succeeded, says Author Hendrick, the Presidency "would have been so diminished, would have so become the sport of legislators, that the constitutional fabric would have been shaken almost beyond repair." The U. S. would have had a government comparable to England...