Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stubbornly Magistrate Norris last week refused to agree with Referee Seabury that her changes were "striking and substantial" in a fair-trial appeal and tended to put her "on record in a fairer and more impartial position." Her only defense: "An error of judgment ... an error of judgment. ... I made the changes according to my recollection of what I said...
...friends. They stood in an alcove long known ironically as "The Statesman's Window," from the highly political railleries exchanged there when voluble Mr. Potter was on the Council. Perhaps they discussed some of the 13 suits which have been started against him since 1924, or the perjury trial against him then pending, or the fact that he was broke. At any rate, he interrupted the conversation to telephone his wife that he would be "a little late for dinner." Then he marched from "The Statesman's Window" to obscurity. Shortly before 6 o'clock that night...
...ousted by the land-scandal investigations in 1929 (and like him, an old gossiper in "The Statesman's Window"), was about to give further testimony concerning those scandals before a grand jury. Observers wondered if Potter, in order to obtain funds for attorneys' fees in his forthcoming trial, had offered to supplement what was known in the land-grant case. It was said that many an official crook would have wished his death in that event. The Cleveland Plain Dealer went so far in its news columns as to remark: "Is it possible that whoever killed Bill Potter...
...recent "Radio Trial" in Moscow, Professor Leonid Ramzin and the other "counter revolutionaries" who confessed by the hour bore no marks of torture whatever and were certainly in possession of both hands. The power of the G. P. U. lies less in horror than in the infinite ramifications of its net of spies. Fathers and mothers can scarcely be sure that their own children, rosy-cheeked "Young Pioneers," are not household spies whose babbling to an older child will reach the G. P. U. If President Hoover knew as much about every U. S. citizen as Dictator Stalin knows...
What has made His Majesty so anxious for so much unpleasant advice? He is trying to avoid what threatens to amount to a trial of the Royal Family by the Spanish people. Up to last week His Majesty had hoped that he could wind up the Spanish Dictatorship by merely proclaiming elections (TIME, Feb. 16), and allowing a constitutional Cortes (Parliament) to be elected "as if nothing had happened"-i.e. as if the constitution had not been virtually suspended and the Cortes totally suppressed since 1923. Suddenly last week King Alfonso appeared to realize that the Monarchist parties in Spain...