Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with "a howling Chinaman." So, claiming that he had been humiliated, Mr. Jockell sued Detective John J. Quinn (who arrested him) for $25,000. Last week a jury upheld Mr. Jockell to the extent of $1,000. Presiding Justice Joseph Morschauser of the New York Supreme Court added: "The verdict should have been ten times as much, so as to teach New York police officers to be more careful in making arrests. Whenever I go into the city I do not know whether or not I'll get out again without being arrested. As a result I take...
...Tonight the speakers of the Hart House of the University of Toronto, upholding the affirmative side of the question, "Resolved, That this house views with apprehension the increased naval expenditures of the United States," defeated the visiting Harvard Debating Union team by a 92 to 88 verdict of the audience. F. H. Heryer '29 and H. L. Hart '28 supported the negative side of the debate...
...composed of F. R. Appleton '75, T. W. Slocum '90, and Owen Wister '82. The committee was organized to clarify and get some definite opinion on the question of a war memorial. Circular letters are going to be sent to all alumni clubs throughout the country. A final verdict is expected to be reached in May and to be given formal publicity at the annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs...
...length away. Twice he struck below the belt and was harshly called by the referee. Even he kept the battle, head jarred, hands jabbing. After a swirling fifteenth round the bell jangled with each man exhausted on his feet. Judges and referee returned a sharply disputed verdict. Benny Bass, coldly courageous, no quitter, vanished wearily to his dressing-room, loser of the world's featherweight championship.* Tapped and fondled by the official doctor, he was declared to be suffering from a probable fracture of the collarbone. Bass had fought through some ten rounds of one of the most vicious...
...Bryce Law Club, represented by H. B. Colby 2L. and A. D. A. Wieland 2L., won from the Sanford Club by a 7 to 5 verdict in the third of the quarter-finals in the Ames Competition last night. The case was tried before Joseph Warren, Chief Justice; and J. N. Welch '17, and A. C. Townsend '11, Associate Justices. The Bryce Club represented the plaintiff, while R. S. Cushman 2L. and J. W. R. Bisgen 2L., representing the Sanford Club, were the attorneys for the defendant. The Pollock-Choate Law Club will meet the Sanford Club next Tuesday...