Word: indictment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr., commandant of the Hawaiian Naval District, reported to the Navy Department that four days later the jury again (11-to-9) refused to indict, suggesting that the charge be changed to manslaughter; again adjourned. That afternoon, he said, it was allowed to vote (12-to-8) a charge of second-degree murder. Two more jurors resigned...
...Judge Wilkerson had upset the plans by declaring: "The court will listen to recommendations, but it is utterly impossible to bargain with a Federal court." Then he had allowed frightened Capone to change his plea to not guilty, had sought?and failed ?to have a grand jury indict him under the Jones ("5 & 10") Law for violation of the Volstead Act (TIME, Sept. 21 et ante). Leaving off his judicial robes, Judge Wilkerson leaned over his desk in a business suit, showed that he took more than a passing interest in the case...
...power . . . arrogantly braying from Louisiana. . . . This is the first time in history that ignorance, impudence and insolence combined have crossed the State line and the people of Texas been insulted by political ambition and demagoguery. . . . Have we reached the point in Texas when the Governor of Louisiana can indict the Texas Legislature . . . and let the Governor of Louisiana get away with...
Besides being a leader in a great consuming industry, Alvan Macauley is an able publicist. He did not primarily urge the purchase of a Packard or any other motor car. He did indict idle money. He cited the well-known statistics of raw materials consumed by the motor industry to show that "the motor car dollar will go more places more quickly, and affect more people for quick relief than any other dollar. ... It can well become the 'self-starter' for better business and greater prosperity...
...bill to abolish the law which forbids discussion of evolution in the public schools. Cried the bill's sponsor: "I'm getting tired of having people refer to Tennessee as the State with the monkey statute." Exclaimed another friend of evolution: "This law has done more to indict the intelligence of Tennessee than any bill ever passed." But the majority of Tennessee legislators were neither tired nor ashamed. They voted down the anti-evolution repealer...