Word: courts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first "talkie" conviction in a U. S. court. Said Judge James Gay Gordon Jr. in admitting the use of the device to the trial: "Such a confession is more valuable than a mere oral or signed...
Vainly had the defense objected: "A lawyer can't cross-examine a mechanical robot. The film could have been cut ... the voice faked. We will take this case to the Supreme Court if necessary...
Paperman Graustein did not realize the power of Premier Taschereau. The Hon. Louis Alexandré Taschereau is of a family superpotent in Quebec politics. His father, the Hon. Jean Thomas Taschereau, was a judge of the supreme court. Still more important was his uncle, the late great Elzear Alexandré Taschereau, dour-faced Archbishop of Quebec, first Canadian Cardinal, a founder of Laval University and for over 50 years an immense power in the life of the province. Premier Louis, cardinal's nephew, was destined from the first for a public career. Premier since 1920, he it was who framed the widely...
...Alumnae Day in May when hundreds of Foxcroft parents and graduates drive over Virginia's slick concrete roads to Middleburg and out to Foxcoft to eat a luncheon and watch the Foxes and the Hounds (competitive divisions of the whole school) play at basketball on a neat grass court...
...Jersey City the police dog of one Howard Breves died, was sent to a taxidermist to be stuffed. Breves refused to pay the bill, testified in court...