Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most vivid demonstration in years that Britain enjoys neither freedom of the press nor freedom of the films. The New York Times hazarded the bold guess that the British Director of Public Prosecutions, although he claimed to be trying to scotch articles and films prejudicial to the trial of the accused, may have acted because "the offending stories were of a sort calculated to win public sympathy for McMahon" from whose hand the pistol sped...
...statute books a law which makes it a crime punishable by flogging and 20 years imprisonment to aim a gun at the Sovereign. It dates from the last of five attempts (in 1882) to assassinate Good Queen Victoria, has never been enforced. Wiseacres wagered that there would be no trial, that Herbalist McMahon would be slipped quietly into an asylum...
...last week a native-born U. S. seaman had served more than a year in German concentration camps and prisons without any trial whatever. Seaman Lawrence B. Simpson, 34, was last year dragged off the U. S. liner Manhattan in Hamburg, charged with possessing 500,000 Communist pamphlets. Last July New York City Communists rioted onto the German liner Bremen in protest against Simpson's jailing, while his father mournfully asserted that Son Lawrence was no Communist. Last fortnight the Ministry of Justice transferred Seaman Simpson from camp to Berlin's famed Moabit Prison, changed the charge against...
...case. "Mr. John" says Revenuer Clarke now knows more about the circus business than he does. Since last year Assistant U. S. Attorney James Randall Creel in Manhattan has been preparing the 400 pages of indictments and the mass of evidence to be used when the case goes to trial. Prosecutor Creel has also become something of a circus expert, though at Harvard (Class of 1927) he won a prize for a thesis on "The Monism of William James As Contrasted with the Tychism of Other Modern Philosophers...
...with sentencing these men to death was that the reasons they gave for the killings they perpetrated have been incorporated by the present Japanese Cabinet into its announced program. It was typical of Japanese Justice that, while 17 sentences of death were meted out and all proceedings of the trial kept secret, the War Office released for publication throughout Japan the full text of the reasons given by the assassins for assassinating...