Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roast chicken, potatoes, peas, duck pâté, salad, ices, fruit). Another day he lunched in a corporals' mess room, another in a chateau used by Napoleon before, and by Wellington after, Waterloo. The King's comment to an artillery officer was quoted as his cheering verdict to all ranks: "As long as we keep on the way we are going now, we won't need to worry about the outcome...
Also, we were not told that we would be locked up till Monday if no verdict was reached. The time set was 10 a.m. Saturday...
...court's verdict: Captain Philip Fairburn, master of Sirdhana, was guilty of wrongful default in not finding out the position of the mine field. Second Officer Thomas Gerard Green was guilty of wrongful default in not transmitting to Captain Fairburn messages received about the mine field, whose location was not marked on Sirdhana's chart. Second Officer Green was censured, Captain Fairburn deprived of his master's certificate for one year (but permitted to act as mate meantime...
Thus ended the six-week trial of General Motors, accused of conspiring to restrain interstate commerce by forcing its dealers to specify that all the cars they sell on installments be financed through General Motors Acceptance Corp. The jury's strange verdict seemed to say that there had been a conspiracy without conspirators. But no seer was needed to guess at the jury's real meaning: that the men accused were no criminals, but the practice had better be stopped...
Next day Judge Lindley slapped a $5,000 fine on each of the four corporations, ordered them to pay the cost of prosecution, estimated at $500,000 to $1,000,000. He did so in spite of defense motions to throw out the peculiar verdict. Said he wryly...