Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black robes and white bibs quietly pursue the ideal of international justice. U.N.'s International Court of Justice, a direct successor to the League's World Court, is "the principal judicial organ of the United Nations." Last week, the distinguished judges rendered their first verdict since they mounted the international bench just three years...
...months the judges deliberated. Last week they solemnly announced the verdict...
...toward Broadway again. It had been 25 years since her first and only Manhattan production-Close Harmony, a flop co-authored by Elmer Rice. In Dallas last week, jittery but still hopeful, she sat with Collaborator Ross Evans in Margo Jones's Theater '49, awaiting the local verdict on their new play, The Coast of Illyria...
Last week, in a London court, bewigged Lord Chief Justice Lord Goddard gave his stern verdict: the Mirror was "a disgrace to English journalism . . . justice and fair play . . . There has never been a case ... of such a scandalous and wicked character. This has been done, not as an error of judgment, but as a matter of policy, pandering to sensationalism [to increase] circulation . . ." The Mirror was fined $40,000. Bolam was sentenced to three months in Brixton Prison (where Haigh is waiting trial), the first editor to be imprisoned under the law in 48 years...
London newspapers carried a brief factual report of Bolam's conviction, with no hints of vampires. None protested the verdict. The Times, which had printed only official announcements in the Haigh case, even cheered Lord Goddard; it thought its tabloid contemporary guilty of "a plain abuse of the right to report news freely...