Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye!" cried the Senate's portly Sergeant at Arms Chesley W. Jurney. "All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain of imprisonment, while the Senate of the United States is sitting for the trial of the articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives against Halsted L. Ritter, United States district judge for the southern district of Florida...
...performance of their rarest and highest Constitutional function. Washington still believes that Judge Louderback was acquitted partly because many a Senator declined to vote guilty on evidence which he had not heard. Last week, stung by Chairman Summers' rebuke, 82 Senators were in their chairs when the Ritter trial began...
...Arthur Bannister's trial for murder in Dorchester was enlivened by tall, red-coated Royal Mounted Police Sergeant Bedford Peters' fainting in the witness box, as he examined the late Phillip Lake's gold teeth. Arthur was summarily convicted of murder...
Mother Bannister enlivened her trial, the first for kidnapping in New Brunswick, by howling so industriously in her wooden cage that the lawyers had to shout back & forth. The jury acquitted Mrs. Bannister of kidnapping, found her guilty of extortion and of "harboring" Betty Ann, a crime involving a maximum penalty of three and a half years in jail...
...Yale Post Commander Theodore Woolsey, some 300 yets marched on the Political Union House, which was in the midst of a debate on the Hauptmann trial, and demanded that the Union pass the bonus payable...