Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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King Fuad of Egypt was widely petitioned to quash the proceedings, and is now being pressed to overrule the verdict...
...verdict had been already delivered, but the trial of Teacher Scopes at Dayton, Tenn., did not close until last week, when Mr. Bryan's last speech- which he had intended to deliver in summing up, but which the defense had at the last moment canceled-was given to the public...
...Facts. (Mr. Bryan rehearsed briefly the evidence presented to the jury, and the admission of the defense that Mr. Scopes had taught Evolution.) "These are the facts. . . . A verdict of guilty must follow...
...corporations in this country were paid off. The balance, $70,426, was paid to the U. S. Government as "interest." It hardly seemed likely that any more would ever be paid. But, last week, one Serge Ughet won a damage case from the Lehigh Valley R. R., with a verdict of $853,000. Serge Ughet is carried on the State Department's official diplomatic list as "financial attache" of Russia. Mr. Ughet has nothing to do with the Soviet Government. He represents no existing government. He represents a state that once was. He was left behind by the last...
...Governor of Wisconsin, Republican and arch enemy of the late Senator LaFollette; in Milwaukee of a heart attack. In 1908, he sued McClure's Magazine for $100,000 for libel in publishing articles accusing him of lobbying and receiving improper commissions from a railroad. He won a verdict...