Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barbaric act contrary to the laws of humanity and conscience", Adolph Hitler, der Fuhrer of the German Reich, will stand trial by a group of student advocates Wednesday night in the Lowell House Common Room. This act was the famous Putsch of June 30, by which at least 77 persons were put to death by the state, and will be tried by regular legal procedure with three students prosecuting, three defending, and five men connected with the University serving as judges...
Sponsored by the Debating Council, the trial will enable students to gain a practical insight into political affairs of the day, and will be conducted in a serious vein. To make the atmosphere more real, the Lowell Common Room will be lighted with special spotlights and arranged so as to resemble a courtroom...
Things come to a head when Judge Priest, temporarily disbanded, helps defend a stranger on trial for the knifing of one Elisworth Brown, local dude and "jelly-bean" par excellence. The jury seems ready to admit that Master Brown richly deserves his portion, but nevertheless is prone to regard the unsociable defendant, who probably did not fight for the Stars and Bars, with a jaundiced eye. Judge Priest turns the tables in masterful fashion. While the strains of "Dixie" are wafted into the hushed courtroom, the parson, (Henry B. Walthall) comes forward as character witness on behalf of the defendant...
...tacked onto the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. In one of the gaudiest shows ever staged on Capitol Hill he attacked the provision with such guile and learning that even Mormon Reed Smoot was finally reduced to apoplectic silence. Result: an amendment giving suspected foreign books the benefit of court trial. In the same year he led the fight which passed, over President Hoover's veto, the Cutting-Hawes Bill for Philippine Independence. In the 1930-31 session he labored mightily to knit the disorganized Progressives into a bloc. Never sympathetic to the Hoover administration, he became its increasingly vehement...
Were Director Voorhees to risk $1 on a trial subscription she might find that TIME, a publication which states more facts more sharply than any other, is also self-correcting...