program. 1  Obs. a proclamation. a prospectus or syllabus. 2  the acts, speeches, musical pieces, etc. that make up an entertainment, ceremony, etc. a printed list of these. 3  a scheduled broadcast on radio or television. 4  a plan or procedure for dealing with some matter.
Trent Affair: 1861-1862. The Trent Affair was the diplomatic crisis that potentially brought Great Britain and the United States closest to war during the first year of the American Civil War.
Clarence Norris. One of the Scottsboro boys-- Norris's second conviction was overturned by the U. S. Supreme Court in the landmark case of Norris vs Alabama, which found Alabama's system of excluding blacks from jury rolls to violate the Fourteenth Amendment.homas Knight Jr. After the Supreme Court again reversed the convictions of the Scottsboro Boys in 1936, Knight met secretly with Leibowitz in New York to discuss a possible compromise. He told Leibowitz he was sick of the cases, and that they were causing Alabama considerable political and economic harm.