Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Also due to Senator Nye, the name of Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, by whom Sinclair was lately tried and sentenced for contempt of court, was momentarily dragged into the case, then dropped when a mysterious package of '"bonds" turned out to be Christmas cards. The spirit of error spread. In the Senate, the Republican Robinson, from politically malodorous Indiana, arose and inquired if Harry F. Sinclair had not been a New York State horse-race commissioner from 1922 to 1925. Senator Nye jumped up and volunteered that it was his "understanding...
...simple plot; but within it are the jungle blues, the swaying bodies, the early-morning smells of Harlem-tied together by an urban Negro's unmistakable contempt for all things white. Many Caucasians will call it a lewd, crude book. It is certainly lacking in inhibitions. That is why it is more convincing, and hence a more significant work, than Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven. "Liquor-rich laughter, banana-ripe laughter," says Jake. That, plus sad rolling eyes, is Harlem...
...elevation of Major Peyton Gordon, U. S. Attorney who has twice convicted Sinclair-for contempt of the Senate and for jury-tampering in contempt of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia-to the bench of the latter Court, by President Coolidge...
...everyone knows, Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago called Superintendent of Schools William McAndrew "a stool pigeon of King George" and other defaming phrases, both before and after suspending him as superintendent (TIME, Oct. 10 et seq.). Mr. McAndrew treated the whole affair with contempt, walked out of his "insubordination" trial by the school board like a man leaving an ineffectual burlesque show. Perhaps contempt meant "too proud to fight," perhaps there was no great glory in being the martyr of a burlesque show; so last week Mr. McAndrew turned on Mayor Thompson with a legal rapier, sued...
...back into his chair humiliated. The judge gazed out the window again, then made a long speech in a low voice. ". . . That he [Father Burns] knew of this surveillance I cannot doubt, and that he knew it from the time it began." The judge concluded: ". . . You are guilty of contempt of court. . . . Men of high character sometimes make mistakes. Your sentence is fifteen days in the Washington jail or asylum...